Just My Typo: from "Sinning with the Choir" to "The Untied States" - Drummond Moir - Boeken - Three Rivers Press - 9780385346603 - 8 juli 2014
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Just My Typo: from "Sinning with the Choir" to "The Untied States"

Drummond Moir

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Just My Typo: from "Sinning with the Choir" to "The Untied States"

A charming collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen, and embarrassing misprints, Just My Typo celebrates the awful and the sublime mistakes that riddle our feeble human attempts at communication.
 

It's time to accept the truth: typos are everywhere. Legal documents are riddled with errors, headlines of respectable publications are rife with misspellings, and even your favorite books need a few reprints to get everything right. Isn't it time we learned to laugh at our mistakes instead of despairing? Just My Typo is an irresistible collection of the most humorous, mistakenly poignant, and downright awful typos in texts, from the Bible to insurance advertisements to political slogans.
 
Within these pages, you?ll travel back in time with great figures from history, such as Sir Francis Drake (who circumcised the world in a small ship) and Rambo (the famous French poet). You?ll also find valuable moral instruction (?Blessed are the meek, for they shall irrigate the earth.?), and meet politicians who exploit disasters to boost their pubic profiles. Structured according to categories (such as, ?To Be or To Be: Typos in Literature?), you?ll easily find either a quick laugh or a relaxing?and cringe-inducing?read. A few more of the gems within:

· ?The Queen pissed graciously over the Menai Bridge.?
· ?I am certain of one thing. Whatever may come between us?and wherever he may be on earth?Arthur will always remember that I love ham.? (The Parting, Millicent Hemming)
· ?Love is just a passing fanny.?

Editors, proofreaders, and writers everywhere pull their hair out trying to eliminate mistakes, to no avail. Celebrating the humanity of our errors and the timelessness of mistakes, Just My Typo is essential reading for anyone who values the power and peril of the written word.

Media Boeken     Paperback Book   (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug)
Vrijgegeven 8 juli 2014
ISBN13 9780385346603
Uitgevers Three Rivers Press
Pagina's 192
Afmetingen 167 g
Taal en grammatica Engels