Summary: A slight typo (and/or legit alternative spelling) has made me giggle...
Ass...es...es...
BLOT: (13 Aug 2014 - 08:50:12 PM)
Ass...es...es...
Oh look, an article about book culture and plagiarism and book buying scams and...
giggle.
The crazy thing is that I kept trying to power through: "while it asses...es...developments?" [read as a synonym for "butts[s] developments"]. I'm just dyslexic enough that (a) I read it wrong twice and (b) assumed somehow it was meant to make sense if I just kept wondering what the ass had anything to do with the claim. It was kind of surreal. I would liken it to someone reading about hexagons and wondering what the hell
Wait, hell, has someone trademarked/etc hex-a-gone? *goes off to search*...oh, right...Harry "Asseses" Potter.
Seriously, though, that's not just some British version, right? Damn, now I'm doubting myself. Giggling and doubting myself...
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