Hi Shelley!I'm reading on the computer with speech: Window-Eyes and TripleTalk PC. I don't have a braile display, so I wasn't thinking in braille like yu and Kim are, assuming you both are reading with a braille display or notetaker like Kim is with her BrailleNote. It's interesting to me though that, in the lasst instance of dis dis dis that I have found so far in the book, it really seemed like it should be an elipsis rather than a scano, because the punctuation would make sense if, after the last word in the sentence, there was . dis dis dis" I changed that instance to an elipsis, not only for the punctuation, but it seemed like the character was thinking of how to explain something.
Debby At 09:08 AM 11/22/2009, Shelley L. Rhodes wrote
Smile, random question, but are you reading in Braille?As the dis is also the . (period) symbol, and in the first example it is a scanno and needs to be removed, the second incident it is a elipses or ...Just a thought, but if you are reading it on a Braillenote or other program it is going to tell you what it thinks it is in braille.----- Original Message ----- From: "Valerie Maples" <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 1:45 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: dis dis disI often find instances like this are font misrecognitions. If you give me an ISBN, page number and sentence, I will see if I can find it on Amazon peek for you to see if there is an explanation. HTH! Valerie-----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] OnBehalf Of Debby Franson Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:38 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 -- Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have. Justdreamingabout nice things is meaningless; it is like chasing the wind.--Ecclesiastes 6:9 NLT To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a listof availablecommands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.comVersion: 9.0.709 / Virus Database: 270.14.76/2519 - Release Date: 11/22/09 01:38:00
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