So the Arrows of the Queen Trilogy has been on my mind lately, and while waiting before my haircut yesterday, I got a few pages into book 1 where I discovered this:
I know I've been hard on and frustrated by typos in books a lot lately, but I kind of adore this one.
Two reasons for why this one makes me smile. First, this book is older. It was first published in 1987, and my battered, beloved paperback copy cannot have come into existence much later than the early 90s. The processes were different, and PC spellcheck had only shown up in 1980, so like...it might not have caught this one. Second...this is such a HUMAN typo on so many levels. If you're typing on a QWERTY keyboard, the letters m and n are right next to each other. It is the easiest thing in the world to tap the wrong key and not notice because your brain is faster than your fingers and you're on a roll. And even if you do have a dedicated human editor combing over the text, the human brain has this quirk where if you read a text often enough, you know what it's SUPPOSED to say, and your brain autocorrects tiny errors like this and you literally just...don't see it. It looks correct because your brain expects it to be correct. Not even the best editors are free of this brain curse, and when you, as an editor, see it in print, you get that fond smile because your brain has bitten you in the ass like that before too. You know EXACTLY what happened there.
So yeah...
*waves fondly at the human expression of imperfection*
