Dear Baen

[james_davis_nicoll]

' does not mean "LOOK OUT! HERE COMES AN ESS!

Comments

[kraig]

"LOOK OUT HERE COME'S AN S", shirley.

[geekosaur]

So apostrophes are their baen?

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

Who is Mar, and why is his Prius misspelled?

[editrx.livejournal.com]

Picture me surprised.

[hattifattener]

crap, are there really that few significant bookstores left in the country?

[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

*pfft* I've bought some ebooks from them; I do hope they don't edit that way in their ebooks...

[jayblanc.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, much of the time you'll hardly see any evidence of editing.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

*winces*
There or anywhere else, these days.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

No, Nook definitely has editors. (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3994)

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahahahahaha

Now I'm wondering how to look for "nook" in all my ebooks.

[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

LOL forever

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Search and replace reminds me of a story, some years back, in our local newspaper (the Northwest Herald). It was about the Enola Gay exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

You can see where this is going. The headline proclaimed the story was about the "Enola Homosexual Exhibit" at the NASM.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

One of our local city governments was headed for the African American after years of red ink, according to one of our state's many fine newspapers.

[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

Oh, gods... *whimper*

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

That page is marred.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I dont 'see the problem.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

I 'see what you did there! That''s really quite clever. Unlike the 'still-pre'sent typo. Ouch.

[michaelgr.livejournal.com]

The word "Phallus" is misspelled.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Argh. Next they'll be offering scrambled egg's -- a common error that at least represents a well-intentioned failure to understand the construction on plurals, rather than this utterly random apostrophizing.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

A sign at my workplace references tool's, and it may be the work of the person who thinks that quotation marks are used for emphasis. I would like to find this person.

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

Perhaps you mean:

I would like to "find" this person.

[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

I saw a post from a bookseller asking what book's people recommended. *rolls eyes*

Of course not

[(Anonymous)]

Surely everyone knows that sometimes it means to look out for an r. You have to take these things one letter at a time.

(with apologies)

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

That's the name of the planet in Martian. It represents an alien noise unavailable to Earth acoustics.

[tomscud.livejournal.com]

It pretty much doe's now.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

At the present time belonging to female deer...

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

D'oh!