just curious here– how often does he add corrections to the book upgrade page?

i sent in one for TN3 quite a while ago (1-2 months maybe) and no sign of it has appeared...

He has been a bit busy recently.

true...

but i was just wondering if anybody has done this...

and what their experience was...

And its possible that the correction you sent in wasnn't an error, it was a deliberate mistake. Or a deliberate feature.

wwi?

Rob

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That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh. Which is it, I wonder?
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

it was for the well of lost plots (i don't know if UK/USA versions matter)

aw heck; i'll just copy and paste body of the email

Recently I noticed an error in the US Viking Edition of The Well of
Lost Plots; near the top of page 116 Libris says "...Ultraword™ is
reverse compatible...". While this is not strictly an error, as I
consider myself knowledgeable in electronics and software I must point
out that "reverse compatible" is not the correct term. The correct
term is "backwards compatible". For reference please visit
[en.wikipedia.org]. I have never
heard it using the word "reverse" and Wikipedia says nothing about it,
nor does searching "reverse compatible" redirect to the backward
compatibility page.
Obviously, this is not a heinous error, but I felt it my duty to
point this out, as per your instructions on your book upgrade page.

Possibly it's because the word 'Backwards' doesn't contain the word 'Verse'?
<shrugs>

Did you use Wikepedia in this world or Thursday's?

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

reverse compatibility, backwards compatibility, downward compatibility... It's all the same anyway isn't it?

IMO, the fact that reverse has verse in it i find unlikely, though it's possible.

and as i said, it's not really a big deal; it's just that reverse and downward aren't the actual terms.

Um, they are over here... maybe it's a quirk of the various forms of English.

I would quite happily accept Reverse in that sense.

both fot the Realworld(TM) and the joke value.



edited 'cos I can't spelllll



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