On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 4:34 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't understand what you mean. What else is, "I should have caught it at >> the proofreading stage but I didn’t."? Are you holding out for >> emotionalistic self-flagellation, or what? > > Didn't you see the paragraph that preceded that sentence, where the > "it" is defined as "the passage got horribly garbled at some point > into something incoherent, I still can’t completely figure out how, > was patched back together by the copyeditor into something that made > logical sense but was obviously factually wrong"? > > Really, is it so difficult, just to say, "Yes, good catch. That was my > bad. Look for the correction in the next edition."? > -raghu.
Notice also how he goes on to brag about all the things that he got right - without giving any credit to anonymous copyeditors: ---------------------------------snip "In fact, I’ve communicated with, or read reviews by, scholars of Greece, Mesopotamia, and Islam, Medievalists, Africanists, historians of Buddhism, and a wide variety of economists, etc, etc, and none have noticed any glaring errors—in fact, the most frequent reaction is that it’s remarkable that someone who is not an area specialist actually more or less gets it right (remember, these are scholars often loathe to admit even their own colleagues in the field get it more or less right.)" _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
