The spice apparently didn't flow A few days ago while reading a book, my...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:39:38 GMT

The spice apparently didn't flow
A few days ago while reading a book, my daughter exclaimed in surprise: "there is a typo in this book!" I explained to her that "every book" has mistakes, and showed her a couple of random examples. I mentioned that it's not just books... that small mistakes can be found almost everywhere.

Considering the large number of words in the typical book, it's no surprise that a few errors creep in and remain undetected until it reaches the reader's hands. On the other hand, some mistakes are rather extreme, and it is amazing that they go undetected and uncorrected until distribution. I once posted one particularly egregious example of that...

Here is another rather extreme example. This is the slide introducing the second part of the Dune (2000) movie trilogy which, like the second part of the Dune book, is called Muad'dib.

Someone wasn't paying attention. Or rather, several someones...

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The spice apparently didn't flow A few days ago while reading a book, my...

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