ATD: candidate errata

Monte Davis monte.davis at verizon.net
Fri Dec 1 17:35:13 CST 2006


Thanks, Tore! I'm trying to keep the wiki entry to unambiguous errors; see
below for how another ear reads two of your examples.

> p. 610, l. 30: "some composite with that soft a shine to it" - in the 
> context, "that soft shine" or better: "a soft shine" would be 
> more fitting.

This harks back to "silvery grouting": I read it as "grouting, [a material
that is not in fact silver but] some composite with a shine as soft as that
of silver."

> P. 830, l. 23-24: "Preferring your own sex? What is that? If 
> anything, these 
> days, is path to career advancement"

It's Grisha speaking here, and dropped articles are a conventional
caricature of Russians speaking English. The once-popular "Rocky and
Bullwinkle" TV cartoon show featured Boris and Natasha: "What is problem,
Boris?" "Is moose and squirrel !"





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