$5,000 per error. Glad this does not apply to blorgs. Er, blogs.

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A new bunch of math text books slated for implementation in Texas was werefound to have 109,263 errors. Apparently, in Texas, the publishers are fined $5000 per error. That comes out to $546,315,000.The publisher, Houghton Mifflin, is working hard to correct the errors….[source]

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6 thoughts on “$5,000 per error. Glad this does not apply to blorgs. Er, blogs.

  1. How could one math book hold that many errors? Ah, it’s many books.Moral of the story: Hire a free-lance editor.I once ran into a fellow editor on the subway. He was pulling little scraps of paper out of his pockets and making notes. I asked him what he was doing, and he said he was editing a textbook. Apparently, those scraps were the manuscript he was given!

  2. free-lance editor here:The original version is correct: “a bunch” is the subject of the verb, so the proper conjugation is “was”. A bunch {of books} WAS to have errors. I know it sounds odd…Compare to “A pile of books was sitting in the driveway.”The best way to avoid this ugly grammar is to avoid it:”n books were examined, and they contained a total of m errors.”BTW: were they written by “cintelligent design proponentsists”? They’re always good for redefining reality.

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