Arrrrgh, goddammit

[bibliogirl]

PrinciPAL characters, not princiPLE characters, good grief. Does nobody proof-read any more, or did I miss a patch to the English language?

Comments

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[karimk]

What Movie / tv show was that!

Re: ??

[bibliogirl]

Annoyingly, a book, and one I've been waiting for for ages, too...

[theozzardofwiz]

It's not that nobody prufe-redes, it's that the proof-readers themselves don't know the language sufficiently well.

[bibliogirl]

Sad but true. Still makes me want to gnaw my own arm off, though.

[thargol]

Sadly this is all too true. In a previous job I refused to put a change to the web site onto our live servers because the proof readers had missed the glaring grammatical errors. I'm supposed to be the science geek. The humanities morons are the ones that are meant to do languages. It doesn't seem to work like that any more.

[bibliogirl]

The science (or maths) geeks are the ones with the eye for detail...

[bibliogirl]

No, although it could be an interesting argument as to which principles they were supposed to represent ;)

[anubisgrrl]

I just edited something making just that correction...sigh

[maeve_the_red]

Ah, so that's the typo de jour! Interesting that you asked me about it, given what the spine of 'Principles of Angels' claimed the book title was...

[bibliogirl]

Heh, yes, caffeine_fairy reminded me of that when I was bitching about it to her ;)