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Great... even dead guys are more productive than I am...
I don't see that as a typo, really. And my god, where is the editor who should have stopped that from appearing in print?
To the 'not a typo' crowd: D and F are adjacent... how is it not a typo?
Dead.
Not yet recovered.
To the 'not a typo' crowd: D and F are adjacent... how is it not a typo?
I still belong to the "not a typo" crowd. Reason being: it's not a misspelling or word miskey or anything of that nature. What it looks like to me: a revision error such as when a whole thought is lost in cutting and rearranging complex sentences into smaller ones. I'm highly susceptible to making those; in fact, I had to resubmit my Sisyphus story for that very reason: a whole dadgummed sentence that didn't make a lick of sense after the old "cut and paste". (And, yes, I think it should have been caught by an editor.)
I also think the Beethoven-Napoleon backstory would support the revision error theory. Beethoven admired Napoleon to such a degree that, at the time of Napoleon's death, there was speculation that Beethoven would cease to compose. He didn't; he went on to compose additional works.
Only that it's a whole thought that's missing. "[Napoleon's] being dead did not stop him [Beethoven] in the slightest from recovering quickly and going on with his music." Or, maybe my definition of typo is too limited.
Chase, sorry to hear you're dead. How do you like it so far?
I believe it's [Beethoven's] being dead did not stop [Beethoven] in the slightest...' Hence the typo.
Well sure, that's exactly how it reads . . . now. I just don't think it's technically a typo—hmm, more like a temporary brain failure, as MaeZe said above.
As Mark might have said, ‘The report of my deaf was an exaggeration."
To stave off trouble, I recommend the ASL sign:
Well sure, that's exactly how it reads . . . now. I just don't think it's technically a typo—hmm, more like a temporary brain failure, as MaeZe said above.
But I took it back; I forgot Beethoven became deaf.
Great... even dead guys are more productive than I am...
There's a lot of dead guys who sell a lot more books than me...