[bksvol-discuss] Re: dis dis dis
- From: "Valerie Maples" <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:55:02 -0600
In the online samples they all appeared to be ellipses butted between two
words or punctuation, but scanning and justification can do funny things to
an ellipsis.
HTH!
Valerie
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>
> Hi Kim!
>
> Oh, I didn't think of the possibility of that confusion, because I wasn't
> thinking in braille.
>
> No, it's not an elipsis or period, but the letters d, i, and s altogether.
>
> Only once did I find dis bumped up against another word as in the funny
> word the scano made of "disfound". Otherwise, they were all separated.
>
> Debby
>
> At 02:00 AM 11/22/2009, Kim Friedman wrote
> >Hi, Debby, do you mean you see the characters "dis" rather than a period
> >(dots 2,5,6)?After all, the dot combination represents the prefix dis as
in
> >dislike, dismay, distrust. Also the dot combination went put together as
in
> >... Is an ellipsis. I this have seen separated words like "be( >fore) or
> >".for now I i n tended to stop somewhere for coffee". Regards, Kim.
> >
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> >Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:38 PM
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> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] dis dis dis
> >
> >Hi everyone!
> >
> >Every once in a while in the book I'm proofing, there is "dis" in all
> >lowercase letters. It is not part of a word, because it doesn't make any
> >sense when trying to fit it with any word.
> >
> >One example was a sentence something like,
> >
> >When I returned to the office I disfound
> >
> >blah blah, blah, (whatever the rest of the sentence was).
> >
> >Hey, could "disfound" mean lost? (chuckle)?
> >
> >Sometimes the dis will be three times in succession as this line that I
just
> >came across:
> >
> >sure knows her detective novels. I wonder dis dis dis
> >
> >I'm just curious. Has anyone come across this curious thing? Is there
> >something about some OCR software that would incert such a thing when it
> >couldn't recognize characters or could it be junk characters?
> >
> >It's certainly not a big deal. It's just an odd little thing.
> >
> >Debby
> >
> >
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> >6:9 NLT
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