[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Amusingly appropriate typo

[Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Geoff Bannister [mailto:gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk] 
| Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 16:05
| To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
| Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Amusingly appropriate typo
| 
| --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" 
| <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
|  
| Carol:
|  
| > As a copyeditor and sometime proofreader, I'd like to point out that
| > even proofreaders sometimes read the intended meaning rather than
| > what's actually in print on the proof sheet, especially in 
| long works
| > when the eyes and brain are tired at the end of the day. But in a
| > short article, especially the first line, there's no 
| excuse. At least
| > four people--the reporter, the copyeditor, the typesetter, and the
| > proofreader, would have seen that article (unless online editions of
| > newspapers bypass some of those steps).
| 
| Geoff:
| On a different topic which arose from a previous post, I must ask a 
| question as a possibly dense UK ex-teacher. I have often seen 
| references to "Subject 101". What precisely is a subject with this
|  title?

[Lee]:
That's a really good question and I figured the answer had to do with the
first class of the first year of college.  I did a bit of poking about and
give you this link:

http://www.slate.com/id/2149082/

It talks about the beginning of the three-digit course numbering system that
universities have.  Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Lee :-)