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106. Typo Demom

The Allusionist

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Is Hell for the Typo People?

I suppose that errors were a real problem given that at the time of Tivalis texts were getting copied and if there was an error in one, there would then be an error copied into loads of them. So your little error could be just spread and then stick in history. There's a lot of examples of scribal errors becoming a thing that remains through the generations. Some scribal errors would radically change the meaning of a sentence. We talked about on my show the wicked Bible which was in the 1600s which was a printing error where they left the word not out of thou shalt not commit adultery.

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