On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:13 PM, donz5 <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a few chapters ahead of you; just finished Conan's extensive > career background that led him to LN in '93. So far I'm enjoying the > book a hell of a lot, but I'm surprised no copyeditor took notice of > the very first sentence in Chapter 1: > > "By eight thirty on the evening of May 19, 2009, a stream of cabs and > limos was snaking slowing down West Forty-third Street..." > > One doesn't go "down" W. 43rd St.; one goes "across" W. 43rd St. One > goes "down," say, 5th Avenue, since it's a north-south passage. 43rd > Street is east-west, and so one goes "across" it, not "down." > > You'd think that someone as familiar with NYC as Carter is wouldn't > have made this mistake.
Is that transcribed correctly? Seems to want a comma, at least. And wouldn't the "down" link to "slowing," as if to say the traffic on W43 was being slowed down? -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
