Chapter 21 Booksellers and Printers (3)

Whether this ingenious explanation is the source of the term "printer's devil" I am not quite sure about. The idea that bullshit is sometimes due to a person's senses—or, worse, his sense of rhythm—is a horrible idea.Just last week, in a poem I wrote about spring, I meant to create the most beautiful imagery, but when I said "the crystal dew drips from the fresh-breathing rose," I got a weird "Dripping from the nose of fresh breath" [rose and nose are very close words. 】. I can imagine Richard Posen's anger (his old gentleman's fiery temper is well known).At the time, he wrote the sentence: "The crowd tore the air with their shouts." His printers changed the line to "The crowd tore the air with their snouts." Pig mouth (snout) two words are very similar. ] But having said that, since the "Piggy Public Questions and Answers Manual" appeared, such mistakes are considered natural.When it comes to fallibility, that's no more than the royal prerogative.When Louis XIV was a child, one day he said "Carlos he so", he should have said "Carlos she so", but he is the king, as long as he changes the gender of Carlos, then this This change is about to be accepted, and Carlos will be a man from now on.

It is not surprising that such errors occur in newspapers, since there is so much work to be rushed through in a newspaper office.However, there are a few of these bugs that are quite interesting.I remember reading in a Berlin newspaper many years ago that "Prince Bismarck has been trying to maintain an honest and frank relationship with the girls." The meaning of this sentence seems to be difficult to understand, and it was not discovered until later: the word "machen" (German: girl) here was originally misprinted, and it should have been "machten". The meaning of this word refers to " All the European powers".