About two yeasr ago I received an electronic ARF (advance
reading file) of a novel in which someone postauthorial (a
postauthorus, let's spell it out) had allowed a spellchecker
to automatically replace supposedly misspelled words. The
results were hilarious, particularly in the colloquial bits,
which had lots of words that "don't exist". I soon got the
original "dirty" version, which was the good one and didn't
have a single spelling error. This ARF was good for a lot of
jokes. The author told me later that, mysteriously, the
printed book had *yet another* small series of spelling
errors, presumably the work of another postauthorus.
Yet another reason why cloning will never work as
intended.
Regards,
MrT
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