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This week, we challenge you to get from this review of a work by Georges Feydeau, French playwright and master of the intentional farce (unfortunately, the Toronto Sun misspelled Feydeau's first name), to this page devoted to Celine Dion, French Canadian singer and master of the unintentional farce.
Scandals customarily generate lots of quick, trashy literature; the kind of unedited, misspelled garbage designed to sell scads of copies before people realize just how junky it is.
Eliot's--an entry that runs on for two and a half pages), the name of just one Yiddish theatrical figure, Boris Tomashefsky , Hebrew literary works ( Zohar ), nonce formations ( money/shmoney , which takes up two pages), misspelled place names to indicate mispronunciation ( BRANzvil , for Brownsville , a section of Brooklyn), Yiddish words that are never used in English ( FUHLKStimlech `folksy,' guht `God,' ich starb `I'm dying'), encyclopedic terms ( black Jews ), and nonexistent words ( who-er “defined’ by the author as “Not exactly Yiddish, but the New Yorkish pronunciation of whore’).
Prouder, in fact, now than when we published it, because nearly two weeks later everyone who could take a shot at it has, and so far I can see that I've misspelled one name, screwed up one sequence (the Journal decided not to wait for comment from the White House on its incorrect steward-witness story after hearing the White House wanted a half-hour to comment, not before), and included two or three gratuitous adjectives that I now wouldn't.
Anything the editor doesn't catch, the checker does, from misspelled names to lapses in logic that only a fresh set of eyes can recognize.
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