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If you consider the importance too us all if it happens, perhaps eminent is not such a bad choice of words.
It 's more likely that the "may" word is the wrong one.
This was in a book I'm currently reading- "collide-oh-scope."
I REALLY think that this warrants a letter or e-mail to the publisher, informing them of the apparent lack of intelligent proofreading and/or editing in regard to that book. Or, you might want to try to get in touch with the author.
A friend of mine managed to get the e-mail address for a fairly famous author, and he sent that author a list of the errata in that man's latest book. He received a very nice--and civil--reply from the author, who stated that his level of frustration with his current publishers is so intense that he is attempting to switch publishers.
The author stated that most of the mistakes noted by my friend had been correct in his original text, but his spelling was altered by the proofreaders/editors. When he corrected their "corrections", they proceeded to override his corrections, and they reverted to their own...creative...spelling for several words.
Last edited by Retriever; 05-14-2014 at 04:53 PM..
I was really trying to ascertain whether or not the author was trying to be creative with the spelling of the word. You know how sometimes, say, Stephen King, will creatively spell a word to denote the way a character might say it? I was giving the benefit of the doubt, but if I'm left wondering...
In an online newspaper's description of an upcoming episode of a popular television drama "Avery finds out about his girlfriend's role in the hay with her boss".
Well, it IS a drama...
Last edited by CraigCreek; 05-14-2014 at 10:31 PM..
"....leaders basically gave him free reign to do anything."
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