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There will always be a Beeb.

May 11, 2019 6:44AM PDT

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If the worst flub is a typo
May 11, 2019 10:15AM PDT

I suppose the Aussy's can live with that.

I don't care what's printed on the currency my gov issues as long as I can buy stuff with it.

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(NT) The bills are legal, as will be their replacements.
May 11, 2019 10:35AM PDT
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Sure they are
May 11, 2019 11:01AM PDT

As those bills go out of circ and new bills come in without the typo it becomes a nonissue.

Actually it was not an issue from the start just something for some folks to carp about.

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I offered it as a somewhat less gruesome
May 11, 2019 11:07AM PDT

tech failure than the usual SE stuff.
Didn't read to the end, did you? Happy

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I read to the end
May 11, 2019 11:22AM PDT

A typo is a nonissue.

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It could make it a collectable
May 11, 2019 11:27AM PDT

But mostly long from now. Maybe add a few if you can get consecutive serial numbers and gift in the future to your heirs.

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Light humo(u)r.
May 11, 2019 7:41PM PDT

"Phew. Now let's just hope we didn't make any typos in this artilce."

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You are a debble
May 12, 2019 6:54PM PDT

Ooops, that's devil. :^)

[ from those old men's blues songs that spoke of "debble women" , and
the women's blues songs who spoke of dastardly men, sometimes using the same phonetics]

Rick " damned " Jones

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My funniest encounter with BBC people
May 12, 2019 10:22PM PDT

was the time I spotted a typo in an article and reported it. As I explained then, I wasn't being Pharisaical but I always steered my students to the website as a place where good English could be found.
I got a nice response, and replied in kind. End of story ...
Except, in my reply I mentioned "prooreading".
Worse, I didn't see it until I came across it a couple years later.

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That is funny
May 13, 2019 5:53PM PDT

I've noticed in the last few years, especially in online newspapers, journals, magazines and news sites, that words are skipped and not caught by whoever does the proofreading. Or is that whomever? I never could remember the rule on that. Anyway, sentences like "The accused was caught in the act of burglary" are truncated to "The accused was caught in act of burglary".

I'm sure you've noticed this too. It's widespread, and I think perhaps a consequence of younger journalists being part of the generation raised on computers and 'smart' phones for output instead of typewriters. Or maybe decreasing revenues and hence positions for paid and un-paid proofreaders? I don't know, really.

What *is* perhaps more interesting is the attitudes of people when I mention this phenomenon - some say it does not matter if the gist of the sentence is understood, sometimes even remarking that such reflects an "economy" of space and bytes. If taken to an extreme, maybe that accounts for the explanation of Trump's team that his calling Tim Cook of Apple "Tim Apple" was a sort of 'shorthand'. ? {and *that's* funny, too, but for a decidedly different and perhaps ultimately unsettling reason.}

Rick " persnickety " Jones