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Mon 12 Jul, 2004 12:11 pm
Last night I found a thought provoking typo in a police procedural murder mystery.
Some of the people inhabiting the mean streets were "Heroine Addicts".
I've know of real-life men with fatal weaknesses for Damsels in Distress. I've know real-life women who distort themselves in an effort to "save" the imperfect men they love.
Would you say that Heroine Addicts exist--or is that category simply an evocative typo?
Oh... They exist!
"Dear Heroine, please save me from another night alone...." *chuckles*
Actually, there are such people as 'Heroine addicts.' In University, I remember there being one guy who was constantly mesmerised by the leading female roles in Shakespeare's plays, particularly those in the Romances (Miranda, Perdita, etc.) He called himself a Heroine addict...
(P.S. Truly, the press continually making typographical errors even to this day is very poor.)
dròm_et_rêve wrote:..........(P.S. Truly, the press continually making typographical errors even to this day is very poor.)
the problem with "spellcheckers" is that they only catch the bad words, not the 'incompetent' authors!
[but we definitely have another 'syndrome' in the making.......]
bromelaid--
Concise and to the point.
fishin'--
You Dirty Old Man. (And you missed, "Since I'm going off to fight for....")
d_e_t--
Spell Check has a lot to answer for. If it looks like a real word, Spell Check assumes that one word is just as good as another. Still, I'm partial to the unintended insights.
heehee - there used to be a t shirt "I am addicted to heroines" - but 'twas for literati, not the beglamoured....
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