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.

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lytlað."
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