{"id":73,"date":"2009-12-24T21:40:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T02:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2009-12-24T21:40:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T02:40:13","slug":"proofreading-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/proofreading-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Proofreading, part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a proofreader, you have to be rather aware of what you&#8217;re dealing with. If you come across, say, a yud which looks far too much like a vav for comfort,<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hasoferet.com\/images\/torah\/yud-vav.jpg\" style=\"border:0; padding:5px;\" alt=\"Ambugious yud-vav\"><br \/>like this,<\/div>\n<p>you certainly ought to fix it; everyone agrees that that&#8217;s no good at all. But if you&#8217;re proofreading something by a Sephardi scribe, and you find that the shins have flat bottoms, you&#8217;d be foolish to go through and change each shin to having a pointy bottom. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like American vs British spelling &#8211; if you&#8217;re a Brit (okay, or a Canadian) editing the New York Times and you find words like \u201cplow\u201d and \u201ctheater,\u201d you&#8217;d be an idiot to impose British spellings and change them to \u201cplough&#8221; and \u201ctheatre.&#8221; But if you find a word like \u201crabibt&#8221; whilst editing <i>Watership Down<\/i>, it&#8217;s quite appropriate to change it to \u201crabbit&#8221; because \u201crabibt&#8221; is obviously wrong according to absolutely everyone. Is your ambiguity a plow or a rabibt?<\/p>\n<p>The image above, to explain in more detail, has a letter that ought to be a yud, but it&#8217;s really a bit too long in the tail to be a yud. It&#8217;s more like a vav. More about that shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a proofreader, you have to be rather aware of what you&#8217;re dealing with. If you come across, say, a yud which looks far too much like a vav for comfort, like this, you certainly ought to fix it; everyone agrees that that&#8217;s no good at all. But if you&#8217;re proofreading something by a Sephardi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proofreading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}