On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:34 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: 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."? >
Frankly, I can't see any practical difference between the two statements. If the distinction matters to you, though, I guess you're entitled to take it as seriously as you see fit. -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
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