What's one typo? While on the staff of the University newspaper, I learned it meant a lot. I had to write a headline for an article that invited students to meet with the deans from the various schools. My contribution to the important day appeared in bold type above the stern, scholarly portraits of the academics: “Deans' Day: Meat Heads of Departments.”
什么是筆誤?當我在大學報社工作的時候,我明白了筆誤可能釀成大錯誤。我要為一篇文章寫一個大標題。這篇文章邀請學生們和來自各個學院的教務長見面。在這么多學者嚴肅的學術照片上面,用粗體字印出的是我的杰作:“教務長日:會見各個院系的頭”。(可是因為筆誤,meet變成了meat,意思就變成了“來吃各個院系的頭”。)