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Is sarcasm bad?

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	Staid S Barr
	Registered: Oct 16, 2003

Registered: May 9, 2007

Posts: 1,536

Posted:

Question: Can a typo be sarcastic?

I just found a typo in an overview, where the heroine was described as "irresistible", but the overview has been in the database for years with the typo "irritable".

Hans

	Astrakan
	Registered: Feb 12, 2000

Registered: March 28, 2007

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Posts: 1,299

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Quoting Staid S Barr:

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Question: Can a typo be sarcastic?

I just found a typo in an overview, where the heroine was described as "irresistible", but the overview has been in the database for years with the typo "irritable".

If it was me and I agreed that she was irritable I think I'd just lock the overview and leave it as that. It's too delicious not to.

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	Winston Smith
	Don't be discommodious

Registered: March 13, 2007

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Posted:

The question that immediately comes to mind, Staid, is this. You said it ghas been in the Profiler for years that way. So is it really a user-generated typo, ot was it an actual distributor generated typo. I suppose the only way to tell that is to check the back cover and hope that if it really is distributor typo it will be revealed there, but then again someone may have submitted a reprinted cover and no one realized it was reprinted, including the Contributor. In which case we could only hope that the Original Cover might surface. Bottom line user typo, fix it, distributor typo, don't fix it.

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	Staid S Barr
	Registered: Oct 16, 2003

Registered: May 9, 2007

Posts: 1,536

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Quoting Prof. Kingsfield:

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The question that immediately comes to mind, Staid, is this. You said it ghas been in the Profiler for years that way. So is it really a user-generated typo, ot was it an actual distributor generated typo. I suppose the only way to tell that is to check the back cover and hope that if it really is distributor typo it will be revealed there, but then again someone may have submitted a reprinted cover and no one realized it was reprinted, including the Contributor. In which case we could only hope that the Original Cover might surface. Bottom line user typo, fix it, distributor typo, don't fix it.

I checked the back cover, and it really has "irresistible". You can even see it on the back cover scan. The scan was also supplied years ago.

Hans

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	Winston Smith
	Don't be discommodious

Registered: March 13, 2007

Posts: 21,610

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Ok then I would guess it is probably just a user generated typo.

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Billy Video

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Registered: March 14, 2007

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Quote:
Some Woody Allen quotes

Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony is not really a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it - and I stopped because I was tired of being stared at.

[Steve Martin as C.D. Bales in Roxanne]

Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect]