Rampant Misspellings

[Cayal]

Originally Posted by Valko

I noticed it more in 'Into a dark realm'

Yes, so did I. It was terrible.

[Fake Vencar]

Pug also told Miranda twice about what happened when he met the goddess of death on his deathbed. Along with the classic: 'Drondorians' from King's Buccaneer.

[Kulgan]

I really believe that a lot of these errors were committed in production, tho REF is probably responsible for some of them too. I hate a mispell because it jerks you right out of the world you're engrossed in and back to whatever we call 'reality'.

Over many years I have noticed more and more misspellings in books, newspapers and other printed media and it seems to be getting worse. I attribute much of it to the deterioration of general literacy in society, as well as a 'who give a damn as long as i get a paycheck' attitude among publishing personell.

What gripes me as much or more is to hear news anchors and other TV and radio people constantly mispronouncing relatively common words. A quarter century or so back, they woukd have lost their jobs for that.

[Cayal]

I am re-reading The Kings Buccaneer, that has some terrible mistakes as well.

[Kasumi]

Originally Posted by Kulgan

I really believe that a lot of these errors were committed in production, tho REF is probably responsible for some of them too. I hate a mispell because it jerks you right out of the world you're engrossed in and back to whatever we call 'reality'.

Over many years I have noticed more and more misspellings in books, newspapers and other printed media and it seems to be getting worse. I attribute much of it to the deterioration of general literacy in society, as well as a 'who give a damn as long as i get a paycheck' attitude among publishing personell.

What gripes me as much or more is to hear news anchors and other TV and radio people constantly mispronouncing relatively common words. A quarter century or so back, they woukd have lost their jobs for that.

I guess alot of the problem has to do with how lazy people have generally become. With applications such as Microsoft Word people tend to skip typo's and only work on the words that have the squiggly red lines underneath. That and general lack of work ethic is to blame. Oh and deadlines. Oh and wages.. probably.

[Overread]

I know its not a Feist book - but going with the general misspellings (aside from my own, which seem to magically turn into other words altogether) I noticed several in the Hardback edition of Shaman's Crossing - one or two were rather glaring as well (I usually ignor most spelling errors)

[Kulgan]

Kasumi, you're right about all of the above. A lot of people who have given themselves over to the machine, or who didn't have a decent background in the language before the comp came along, are relying too much on it and not enough on their brain. And the laziness is definitely a factor also.

Overread, I gave up on Shaman's Crossing after about the first 50 or so pages for a different reason. I was a real Hobbs fan for years, the Assassin, Liveship and Fool series were wonderful. But this latest batch looked to me like it was written by someone else entirely - dry, boring and disppointing for me. I couldn't believe it. Just MHO on her latest stuff.

[Fake Vencar]

I really need to read a varied collection of books to compare others to his. But the Pratchett books have no mistakes and he has the same dyslexia right? Surely Ray just needs better editors!

[fingy773]

i try to ignore mistakes, i read over books quickly, but when i readover a spelling mistake i have to stop and read it again to wonder what is was that i sensed was wrong... i find it a bit weird, though i dont know about you[/quote]


i do that as well

[george c]

some publishers are less..... observant than others

[Cayal]

Originally Posted by george c

some publishers are less..... observant than others

A pair of blind monkeys could do a better job than what is evident in the Feist book I am reading now.

Galis instead of Calis. Seriously.

[Fake Vencar]

Not too many spelling mistakes in the other books, just King's Buccaneer. Strange that

[Kulgan]

Might indicate that KB was a 'rush job', probably due to publisher/editor oversights.

While re-reading Sethanon, I just noticed two places where the word 'your' came up 'our' instead - the Y is missing. Now that will really throw you off of who's saying what to who...

[Fake Vencar]

I've noticed in some of the books, 'Questor's Point' is spelt 'Quester's Point'*. Could it be a simple replace search by a publisher?

[Kulgan]

That might actually be the comp, programmed to automatically correct spelling 'errors'. It would read Questor as a misspell and change it to Quester. Good ol' computer error, even tho it's technically not an error...