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Jerry Friedman writes in response to Jansy Mello:
"Forward" for "foreword" is a common spelling error.
Like many such, it results from two words that sound
the same (at least in American English). I doubt
that anything about Kinbote's Foreword particularly
impels this error.
I've just had time to glance at the paper. I'm not
really the right reader for it, as I don't respond
well to written humor, especially the more subtle
kind. (Alone here, I hardly ever find VN funny.) I
spotted a mistake or two, but I can't tell whether
they were really mistakes or deliberate absurdities
like the main thesis.
On a totally different note, Stan Kelly-Bootle mentioned
Paul Erdős. Pnin's and Kinbote's scholar-gypsy lives
have long struck me as reminiscent of Erdos's stranger-
than-fiction life.
Jerry Friedman hopes some people got the o with the
Hungarian "long umlaut".
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"Forward" for "foreword" is a common spelling error.
Like many such, it results from two words that sound
the same (at least in American English). I doubt
that anything about Kinbote's Foreword particularly
impels this error.
I've just had time to glance at the paper. I'm not
really the right reader for it, as I don't respond
well to written humor, especially the more subtle
kind. (Alone here, I hardly ever find VN funny.) I
spotted a mistake or two, but I can't tell whether
they were really mistakes or deliberate absurdities
like the main thesis.
On a totally different note, Stan Kelly-Bootle mentioned
Paul Erdős. Pnin's and Kinbote's scholar-gypsy lives
have long struck me as reminiscent of Erdos's stranger-
than-fiction life.
Jerry Friedman hopes some people got the o with the
Hungarian "long umlaut".
Search archive with Google:
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