[bksvol-discuss] Re: properly-spelled foreign names

  • From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:59:18 -0700

Absolutely right! And I should have thought of that, too.

Evan

----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 12:27 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: properly-spelled foreign names


Interesting idea--but it doesn't explain how the names
scan properly. It's almost as if the person actually
checked the spelling and so the books I've gotten to
validate have had those names correct, even though
there are other scannos in the text.

Cindy

--- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just off the top of my head, it may be that they are
programmed not to
correct capitalized words.

Evan

----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 12:47 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] properly-spelled foreign
names


> Interestingly, in every book that I've validated
that
> had foreign names, of whatever language, including
> Chinese,, Russian, and made-up weird fantasy
names,
> the proper names were spelled correctly. I'm
always
> amazed and wonder if the scanning people took
special
> care to check and correct them or if the scanning
> machines just did a fantastic job.
>
> Cindy
>
> --- Dan Beaver <dbeaver888@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Wow!
>>
>> Ok, this one is up for the admin team.  Sure was
>> long.
>>
>> I warn anyone looking at it that it has a very
large
>> number of Vietnamese
>> and Chinese names.  I could very well have missed
>> spelling errors.  But, I
>> did my best.
>>
>>
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