The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-03-08

shall unmean heresy in the printed wordf
We said last week Of & the 1 s. aa @ THAT his Life was in
in print as incomplete conformity
Surely greater depth feeling of helpless
than that finding oneself thus poried by the
imbecy of type One only hope the reader has
enough to interpret the thing Alright That S if there is
reader where there doesn't to be prooreader
Our language sometimes appears to be lying in ambush to
destroy Words like restive horses which dislike to be
driven tamey and guided plain road they
their teeth with
they bring us to example given
above And when writer has the cooperation careless type
setter enhance his careessness the result be
devastating.
Scrpta says written stay The spoken
word however unwse with the passing breeze
But the written word remans is embamed in ink and
happen any time view the Now if the
written word be set in print and repeated hundreds of times
in whole issue Of d rla mot only S but
template the spectacle.
then must poor scribe when he says something
like r passed long life dedication and fidelity
to the highest ideals only to find the thing print this
and condition. MIR Jones passed his long life in dedication
and infdeliB to the highest deals?"
writer indeed is likely enough to make fool himself
especially his writing hurried left unedted He does not
help printer the printer should always
be made the whippngboy for his Thus recently
learned journal which weghy and important that the ed
just getting the Summer
1856 appears this line He had Abbot Cuhbe Buffers
Benedcne Monach which at that time had not yet been
written
To achieve height of absurdy the printed word
writer or printer must lend effort small writer
printer must lend effort small town offered in
advertisement 1853 ls54he clipping has somehow dis
appeared following among others Genuine wool
knives and forks and sverpaed ankesox Imagine the
that ragged in that little prntery when the advertiser his
careful copy thus mangled in enduring print
The writer is likely quickly to blame his mistakes
the printer But the writer is the only who thinks
of the Mistakes always ascrbed by the reader to the
who wrote the original lines and never to the man who set
them in type, the printer the whipping boy for the
author is only the author who welds the whip never by
chance the reader
msspelled mangled and changed "lest"
for et ortos for torso block of words omitted to the
destruction ensehese the ordinary and far too frequent
items the list of things that spell hearbrek for the hapless
writer who commits his copy the printer with prospect of
seeing it again until appears in final form published
article.
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is amazing how easily errors occur. book that is
free from them is rarity book to final
printing regularly read and checked by several skilled proof
we'll by the author One wonders how the publishers
produce the big dictionary There must be big
staff poofer and their work be checked again and again
and still again.
Frequently enough mistakes not in fine print in in
minute msers,such dividing word into proper
syilabe putting the proper dacrical marks on It to insure
correct pronunciation indicating pronunciation with
equivalent letters and signbu the plain bodyio the text
and even in headlines
instance years ago diocesan presenting
detailed of bishop broke the article into sections
heading with big boldced type One of these
headings meant to be ORDAINED IN SUCHANDSUCH A
YEAR AS printed the caption read ORGANIZED IN SUCHAND
SUCH YEAR
How could such an obvious silly be missed by
Perhaps thing be too plain to be
Who had the of looking fevershy about his
desk for such thing boe and after CIV
the search hopeless suddenly seeing the thing lying in
open look high and low for his glasses
while they peched his forehead Traffic tell us
that railroad crossing accident because moor1st
drives headlong into standing uain