Typos that shouldn't be possible
Dec. 20th, 2008 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuFrom yesterday's NYT, dead tree edition (it seems to have been corrected in the online version), an op-ed column about Caroline Kennedy:
It might even be liberating. It can’t be
fun to live your life defined — in the pu-
bic eye at least — by your tragic past.
First time I read it, something triggered subliminally that "this is wrong." Second time through, I said, "That's funny, it really strikes me as the wrong word." Third time through, I actually saw the typo.
But you'd think the computer would pop up a warning. "Are you sure you mean to use that word?" Until the columnist and a copy editor have both explicitly approved it, the system should assume it's wrong.
It might even be liberating. It can’t be
fun to live your life defined — in the pu-
bic eye at least — by your tragic past.
First time I read it, something triggered subliminally that "this is wrong." Second time through, I said, "That's funny, it really strikes me as the wrong word." Third time through, I actually saw the typo.
But you'd think the computer would pop up a warning. "Are you sure you mean to use that word?" Until the columnist and a copy editor have both explicitly approved it, the system should assume it's wrong.