Favorite typo ever:

from JoeUser Forums
Human gnome project.

This one came to my attention whilst perusing the slush pile at the publishing house I worked at for awhile. The guy was writing a very serious book on the Human Genome Project, and that typo was in his first sentence.

If it were in some far back page of the manuscript, I could forgive it. But the first sentence of the first paragraph of the first page? C'mon.

I'll give him points for letting the manuscript stick in my head, though I don't think we ended up publishing it.
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
That is great. Ah, the images that conjures up. The Human Gnome Project. Good, good stuff.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yeah, you could really run with something like that...
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Run, but run where? It's been sitting in my vocabulary now for a year and, alas, I have no use for it except to make me (and now you) laugh. *sigh*

Hopefully I'll use it in a prize-winning essay someday.



-A.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
The first thing I thought of when I read this was the garden gnomes from the Harry Potter series... I wondered if the Human Gnome Project is a way to turn humans into snarly little gnomes that tear up your taters and rose bushes....
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yeah, Chip, if you don't watch out, I'll hex you and turn you into a garden gnome.

I love Harry Potter. I've read it so much that I know most of the inconsistencies and not a few of the nuances she's going to have to address if she'd quit popping out babies and sit down and write.

*mumbles incoherently*

Stupid authors. Shouldn't be allowed to have lives.



-A.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
I've read all the Harry Potter books, too, and really enjoyed them. I made a point of buying the DVDs from a Korean store in San Jose. In addition to subtitles, all movies aimed towards kids (not necessarily the case with Harry Potter) are dubbed. So, I can take them in to school and show them to my students. Most of them have seen the movies already, so they know what's going on and they get the benefit of hearing the Korean.

Stupid authors. Shouldn't be allowed to have lives.


Yeah, I'm not only waiting for more books from this series, but Robert Jordan is at the top of my $#!^ list for much the same reason (although, book 10 gave his name a bold font and and underline)!
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
If it were in some far back page of the manuscript, I could forgive it. But the first sentence of the first paragraph of the first page? C'mon.


I agree. How could he miss it in such an obvious place? That's why I always had other people read my works before I submitted them, so they could catch things I missed.