[bksvol-discuss] Re: books with die ought to die
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:44:27 -0700 (PDT)
Interesting point. I don't think I've seen the switch
of die for the except when the word stands by itself.
orn for om inside words I have seen a lot, though.
Cindy
--- "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As I also pointed out you really have to search for
> each and every
> occurance of "die" because the combinations I listed
> simply do not
> catch a lot of occurances of "die" which ought to be
> "the". I
> believe that a book containing a lot of "die" for
> "the" ought to be
> rejected by a validator most of the time. The
> problem is just too
> big to validate easily.
>
> dieater
> dieatre
> dieory
> dieorem
> dieology
> weadier
> whedier
> and on and on.
>
> The submitter needs to read a few pages at various
> places in the book
> to make sure di for th is fixed throughout the book
> by fixing the
> brightness settings at the beginning of the scan.
> Without doing this
> the validator is left with so much work that the
> book is often a
> nightmare to fix up.
>
> Usually di for th occurs in scans where 1 replaces I
> as in "1 have"
> and there are other errors such as widdi for with
> widdiout for
> without and on and on and on.
>
> If the validator's name appeared along with the
> submitters when a
> book entered the collection the validator and
> scanner might feel more
> ownership and pride in a job well done. Also, the
> rest of us will be
> easily able to tell who is doing the kind of "jiffy
> validating"
> resulting in books getting into the collection in
> such poor shape.
>
> What a shame to bso a book so newly added to the
> collection!!
> E.
>
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