• TechLauren@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    If it eats the mistakes wouldn’t that be helping? I’ll take the thing if no one else wants it.

  • takeheart@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    I initially wrote ‘temptor’ in the title but then double checked. Not today, Titivillus.

  • egrets@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    How was there a demon of misspelling before standardized spelling?

    • VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      If you read the article you would have seen that when it was first made up it was more about going to church and singing or praying out of rote and not doing it full heartedly.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    Those medieval people were silly and backward. Why would anyone think a demon would drag them to hell just because the mispeeled a

    • takeheart@lemmy.worldOP
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      You wouldn’t think how far clerical errors could go when it was laboriously copied by hand by exhausted monks in candlelight.

      The whole Mary was a virgin thing (aka immaculate conception) was started because someone mistranslated young woman as (sexual) virgin. In some languages those terms are really close (even today for example in German: junge Frau Vs Jungfrau).

    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      Oh no. Now we’ll never hear from FlyingSquid again. RIP, fiend, we’ll mis

  • ummthatguy@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Based on sheer numbers and the inclusion of “internet speak”, that must be one well fed and powerful demon.

    • takeheart@lemmy.worldOP
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      To be fair some languages like English or French have so horrendous and outdated orthography that I’m not going to fault the writers.

      Writers. Why is there even a W in that word still? Ridiculous, write?

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      Yes, once the internet became popular I imagine he became powerful enough to overthrow Lucifer and take over Hell. There’s a place there where the smallest detail of what you write or say is nitpicked. It’s hell for people who aren’t good at grammar and spelling and heaven for grammar nazis.

    • takeheart@lemmy.worldOP
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      There was some degree of standardization. Especially for important legal and religious texts alteration, even if accidental, was considered a sin/vice.

      Scribes very often simply had to produce 1:1 copies of existing texts. So the standard was right in front of them.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    It’s rather ironic that his name is spelled ‘Tytinillus’ in the document of John the blind.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    You’ve got Paul Bunyan and John Henry, but I’ve never heard a tall tale about a scribe or a printer.