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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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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Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have. Just dreaming
about nice things is meaningless; it is like chasing the wind.--Ecclesiastes
6:9 NLT
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