{"id":242,"date":"2005-04-15T13:57:31","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T13:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2005-04-15T13:57:31","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T13:57:31","slug":"delong-srs-law-of-proofreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/15\/delong-srs-law-of-proofreading\/","title":{"rendered":"DeLong Sr&#8217;s Law of Proofreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like a corollary to Douglas Adam&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Somebody_Else%27s_Problem_field\">Somebody Else&#8217;s Problem field<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murphy%27s_law\">Murphy&#8217;s Law<\/a>&#8230; J. Bradford DeLong suggests a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-bradford-delong.net\/movable_type\/2005-3_archives\/000711.html\">natural law of proofreading<\/a> that deserves wider consideration.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My father believes that one should leave typos in one&#8217;s galleys uncorrected. It is a law of nature that when one opens the printed version the first thing one will see will be a mistake. If you leave  the typos alone,  the first thing one will see will be a typo. If you correct the typos, the first thing one will see will be a truly horrible and inexcusable substantive error:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like a corollary to Douglas Adam&#8217;s Somebody Else&#8217;s Problem field or Murphy&#8217;s Law&#8230; J. Bradford DeLong suggests a natural law of proofreading that deserves wider consideration. My father believes that one should leave typos in one&#8217;s galleys uncorrected. It is a law of nature that when one opens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}