Ihave
been intrigued by typographical errors nearly all my life," Emory alumnus
Max Hall writes in the preface to his new book,An
Embarrassment of Misprints.
"As a newspaper person, Washington information officer, book editor, and
teacher of writing--and simply as a reader--I have seen plenty of
mix-ups."
What follows are some of those mix-ups, culled fromAn
Embarrassment of Misprints:
"In the spring of 1990 the United States Naval Academy presented 990
diplomas to its graduating class with `Naval' spelled `Navel.' A
representative of the Academy told me the flawed documents arrived from
the printer the day before the ceremony, and there was nothing to do but
hand them out. A corrected version was later sent to each graduate."
"According to a history of theWashington
Post, that paper once printed this headline on the front page of its
first edition: FDR IN BED WITH COED. Actually President Roosevelt was in
bed with a cold, as the story made clear. Chalmers Roberts, author of
the history, wrote that this misprint probably occurred in 1940, and
that the President phoned the paper and ordered a hundred copies to send
to his friends. But Roosevelt didn't get his copies, because the
circulation department had scurried around to retrieve the edition and
shred it."
"On January 18, 1961, the International Edition of theNew
York Times, published in London, referred to [the Archbishop of
Canterbury] as the `red-nosed Archbishop' (meaning `red-robed')."
"W.B. Yeats, in his poem `Among School Children,' mentioned Plato
and then `solider Aristotle,' but the printer made it `soldier
Aristotle.' That version went unchanged in several printings of Yeats's
complete poems while he was still alive, suggesting that he may have
decided he could live with `soldier.' In the edition of 1947, eight
years after his death, `solider Aristotle' was substituted."
"When my friend Randolph Fort [who went on to be editor of Emory
Magazine] was appointed Beauty Editor of the Emory University Yearbook
in the early 1930s, a misprinted headline in theEmory
Wheelmade him the
`Betuty Editor.' For the rest of his life his friends called him
`Betuty.' "
When I was in college, I revised nothing. I wrote out my papers in
longhand, typed them up and turned them in. It would never have
crossed my mind that what I had produced was only a first draft
and that I had more work to do; the idea was to get to the end,
and once you had got to the end you were finished.
Paul Farber,who
teaches Haverford’s first-year seminar “Borders, Walls and Bridges:
Cultural Approaches to Divided Cities,” has some advice for freshmen
who might feel the same way:
“Anticipate that you will have a revision process. If you write with
the awareness that you could eventually build on your original
draft, you can more productively incorporate feedback from a
professor, trusted writing partner, or follow up with your own ideas
as they evolve. When you complete a draft, and then immediately
print it out to submit without any plan for revision, this most
often works to your disadvantage.”
Idea:
Have students observe their own writing, proofreading and editing
process and record the average time spent completing assignments.
Then, have them consciously build in more revision time. Dr.
Farber suggests that “even taking a few minutes or hours between
draft completion and editing will allow you to see your writing
from a new perspective. Sometimes a change in location or reading
your paper aloud accomplishes that same critical distance.”
Where do you get the look news from?
I get the look news from my house in the morning while I have breakfast
I usually get the first look in the computer. For local news I buy el
diario montañes, I like reading this newspaper in pijamas. The newspaper
is in my house's door at 7 o clook every morning.
CONDITIONAL
If JFK had lived, the Vietnan war would have finished much earlier
Book page 142
Vaughan's Translations for practicing the conditional
