Am Brigadier (ret'd) Disgusted-Hedjog of Tunbridge Wells, going Humphhh!
I have previously, I think, complained that Academic Publishers Who Are In The Habit Of Charging An Arm, A Leg And Several Internal Organs for the works they produce, except for the brief period when they hold their annual sale, whatever they are doing with those ill-gotten gains, they are not spending them on due diligence in the editorial process.
This is not even those egregious instances where an early draft seems to have been dumped straight into the publication process (some examples of which I have perorated upon in the past).
But it is what I would have considered (maybe this is ok boomer territory) absolutely basic stuff, not the sort of thing that would require running the text past A Nexpert in the field. (Which they don't do either.)
And not even, not running it past a reasonably competent copy editor who would pick up things like OMG that is not the correct way to refer to Sir Somebody Something or 'your geography of London is a little hazy'.
It is actually incorrect English usage. It is grocer's apostrophe's (has that ship sailed? really?). It is letting 'between [X] and I' slide past when it should be 'between [X] and me', a distinction my mother made clear to me in my childhood. It is words which do not mean what, I deduce from context, the author seems to suppose they mean (e.g. 'avocation' does not mean 'advocacy').
I boggle. I cringe. I do the goldfish thing with my mouth. You are charging nearly £40 for the ebook, £70 for the hardback. I am sure the author is not coining it. Where is the money going? This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/3024766.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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