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Typos in books (1)
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Jan 18, 2011
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One of my unintentional talents involves effortlessly finding fault in others. Mostly that takes the form of being able to find at least ten mistakes in an average book, sometimes grammar, sometimes spelling. The thing that doesn't make sense to me is this: Don't writers, or editors, or publishers, or any of the other people involved in the process of producing a book use spell check? I can understand the presence of grammatical errors; machines can't catch them and you'd need several sets of eyes in order to find any mistakes. But spelling mistakes are incredibly easy to catch, ever since the advent of the 20-year-old technology of spell check. Please, book people, click on that little button with the "a-b-c" and a "check" symbol. #entertainment
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Steamed spinach (3)
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Jan 18, 2011
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I've been eating a lot of spinach lately, and I'm a newly-converted fan. It's good raw in salads, and it's even good fried in omelets. One way it's not good is the way I ate it my entire life, leading to my intense hatred of it: Steamed or boiled. I had an excellent meal at a restaurant the other day, consisting of red snapper on a bed of steamed spinach. Everything was going great, until I got to that slimy, bitter mess of green nonsense underneath the fish. I don't understand how a simple cooking technique can transform a food in such a horrific way. #food
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