[bksvol-discuss] Re: The Continent Makers
- From: "Martha Rafter" <mlhr@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:08:05 -0400
Hi Mike and all,
I can't remember which book it was, (unfortunately) but I did come across
an apostrophe in front of the word plane to indicate an aircraft. The word
was in the book several times so I knew it was what the author wanted.
Marty
Marty
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From: misha
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 12:57 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] The Continent Makers
Several months ago (I kind of think it was when I was recovering from my
head surgery, but I'm not sure), someone scanned the book "The Continent
Makers" by L. Sprague de Camp. I had to reject the book for the
strangest reason I've ever come across.
In this book, creative spelling is used to represent the accents of both
humans and alien beings. The scanner took a lot of trouble to "correct"
all those "misspellings." I felt extremely bad about rejecting the book
because someone put in "too" much work on "fixing" this scan. I was
really hoping the original scanner would, embarrassed though he or she
might be, resubmit the book, "uncorrected."
Well, that hasn't happened and since I have a copy of the book, and it
really is one of de Camp's most delightful sets of stories, I have
scanned and submitted it. This could be a case where Kurzweil's ranked
spelling could really help. So, for whoever decides to proof this book,
if a word is spelled the same wrong way many times, it's probably
intentional, especially if hearing it aloud it sounds like the character
has a terrible accent.
One other oddity, whenever the word airplane is shortened to just plane,
there is an apostrophe in front of the word 'plane. These stories were
written in the early 1950s, but I don't remember seeing that way of
writing the word anywhere else in books of that period.
Despite the pitfalls, I think this will be an enjoyable book for someone
to proof.
Misha
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