After complaining that every issue of Monocle is replete with copy errors that should never be found in a quality magazine and also complaining that I have better things to do than correct them, I thought I would limit my review of the October issue to nothing but the copy errors. Tkae thta Tlyer Brüle!
| Page | Error |
|---|---|
| Cover | A bad place for a typo. The worst place, presumably. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WELCOME TO THE ATLANTIC’S HOTTEST HUB needs a vocative comma. |
| 20c3 | there’s also room to exploit, short haul, over-the-pole flight times (makes no sense even in ill-punctuated original) |
| 25c2 | “We can only smile at the Russian’s flag under the North Pole.” Whose – Putin’s? Kasparov’s? |
| 28t | Double quotes inside double quotes (no doubt caused by confused British editors confused by confusing Canadian/Cambridge style used in the book) |
| 43b | sartorial flare (no, flair; he doesn’t have a tail) |
| 56tl | 18 years-old; machine-gun equipped smugglers |
| 57 | muslims; text-book (n.) |
| 69 | STUDIO 24 not TWENTY-FOUR (gee, you don’t write 24 as TWENTY-FOUR on p. 150) |
| 72 | internet (your house style is wrong; similarly for website) |
| 74l | errant single quotes on ‘biomass’ |
| 81br | €1,300 a square metre not €1300 a sq m (and just start writing 20% not 20 per cent) |
| 100, 160 | All these first-person exegeses use quotation marks incorrectly. You can’t put an opening quote before the first graf and a closing quote after the last one |
| 106¶2 | His response to Ground Zero, was |
| 110c2 | Parens in original in “OMG (Oh[,] My God) Urban Daze” and the other one? |
| 124¶2 | ’ instead of ′ (I really expect this to be gotten right) |
| 153¶2 | the factory machines – which [not “that”] Ghraoui guards like a military secret – are |
| 149 | Wrong font in ä in närgil (Windows user run amok?) |
| 154 | subtropical (no hyphen) |
| §E | Footnotes come after periods and commas |
| Increasingly tedious, indulgent, shark-jumping manga | Strewn with half-assed mistakes as usual, including Shinobi is is losing its touch |