h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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What's it called - "Last Chance to See ..."?

The Hitchhiker's Guide
Earth Edition 1999 - 2011

A showcase of some of the best of h2g2

Right. I have updated the master following most of the suggestions you guys have made.

Do you want to have the new master, or do you want to carry on with your current versions?

Ben

What a Player you are, Ben!

I'll be tied up (with any luck ) over the next couple of days, but do please send me the new Word doc and I'll skim through once I'm free.

What's the deadline for late changes?

Well, I needed to get this lot off yesderday, and did so . We can take our time to get the third round of changes completely right. I'd like a bit of time off while you guys do the fine tooth-combing (I know there'll be more) so how about we go for mid-May - after the Meet on the 14th? That gives us two weeks. If we're done sooner, that's great though.

I'll be happy to have another go at the latest version of the word file, if you would please email it to me.

Emails sent to Milla, Trout, Rudest Elf, Rod, PaulH and Rod.

I realise we've got time to spare, and I realise I am myopic on Beckham but I have reservation about the changes on page 169 (177 of 253).

The elipsis was intended to show that the quote was incomplete: Revie's full quote was "Trevor is the unluckiest player to be sent off. I was only 15 yards from the incident and saw it clearly. Trevor went for the ball, won it, then backed off. Bertoni turned and threw a punch which knocked out two of Cherry's front teeth".

Source: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/thirty55a.htm

The Guide version A47629317 foreshortens that soundbite.

I reckon it is appropriate to retain the elipsis to signify that the sentence "I was only 15 yards from the incident and saw it clearly" is omitted.

Perhaps as a compromise it could be:

"Trevor is the unluckiest player to be sent off[...] Trevor went for the ball, won it, then backed off. Bertoni turned and threw a punch which knocked out two of Cherry's front teeth".

p23/253: fourteenth century > 14th Century

p37/253:
"The Ars Subtilior of fourteenth century Avignon produced scores of a complexity quite unreadable to all succeeding centuries, before the omnivorous 20th. Fifteenth century counterpoint teems with detail like a Van Eyck painting. The sixteenth century tamed counterpoint, the seventeenth both despised and pedestalled it, and in the eighteenth Bach knocked in its beautifully ornate and mathematically perfect coffin nails."

Surely not.

p38/253: sixteenth century > 16th Century

Hang on ...

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The "World War" references are still inconsistent.

There's a "World War Two" on 223/253 while everywhere else is World War II.

And on p142/253 "World War I" is used while "First World War" is employed on pgs. 25/253 and 200/253.

p59/253: "specter" has been erroneously corrected to "spectre".

This is a direct lift from an advertisement (so maybe change "poster" to "advertisement").

I thought I'd picked up all those. Mind you I was working at such speed on Thursday.

SoRB and 3 dots came round today, Trout, and both admired the book. SoRB read out loud bits from your entry about Beckham - in particular the bit about who-was-it wanting to applaud an opposing team's goal and the bit about who-ja-ma-flip moving as if the ball had been laced to his boot.

Keep this lot coming in. I'll update tomorrow, again mid-week, again next weekend, and so on until we are done, done, done!

Ben

Messi's second effort against Real Madrid on Wednesday night was not dissimilar. In the Telegraph, Henry Winter marvellously describes it as an Odyssey.

Ben, I think you must have missed Posting 302 (now slightly updated) as follows:


P.92 An Orthodox Christian website says ?

P.94 actually makes it.’

Generally, some quoted passages (speech) are within quotation marks, others not.

P.99 halfway

P.100 that is any character

P.101 Title Declawing Cats

P.101 Heading having it declawed

P.101 declawing process

P.101 abnormal regrowth

P.101 after-effects (footnote)

P.102 Declawed cats often

P.102 wardrobes -

P.102 Reasons To Declaw A Cat

P.102 exercising, so the animal

P.103 needs to be repeated

P.103 catnip

P.103 Home-made

P.103 considering declawing

P.103 Declawing is irreversible

P.103 institutions that will help

P.103 caring for declawed cats.

P.105 <It’s to know out [....] I don't understand this sentence

P.111 orchestra - it

P.112 operas - the

P.112 Götterdämmerung - being

P.114 tenseless verb.

P.116 well founded

P.118 skinful

P.123 A full-size '1' (instead of the usual wee footnote one) appears before the full stop.

P.130 Schmalfuss, noticed

P.130 Gauss’s average

P.130 mathematical analysis.

P.135 2 May, 1918.

P.135 27 February, 1919

P.135 13 March.

P.137 well known

P.139 refreezes


Also, some of the entries shown in the Anthology as 'Approved' are not the approved versions: A471025, A698862, A3687735, A1046963, A4094255, A10332758, etc.

Most of post 286 (updated here) seems to have been missed, as follows:


Opening page: Hitchhiker's Guide ?

Opening page: to the Galaxy'.

Page 2. seventeen-year-old

Page 2. A brief history of H2G2: However, by the end

Page 2. " " " : that the BBC

Page 5. In a nutshell: that improves

Page 5. " " " : each other's

Entries:

Page 9. woodscrew

woodscrews

Page 10. <the un-initiated) < the uninitiated)

less deep than the depth

Page 29. <‘fitting together of a counterpoint with’ a new> ‘[....] a counterpoint' with a new

Page 34. well-wishers

Page 37. <‘Monicas’> should that be ‘Monica’ ?

Page 43. be reseated

coconut palms

Page 46. a rewrite was required

Page 47. motorbike

Memorable moments ?

Page 48. that the British music industry

Page 54. my classmates

< that no-one> that no one

well-educated

Page 55. long time.)

Page 56. vertical take-off

a twenty-hour shift

Page 57. < ’till> till

fiberboard (there are a few US spellings that I have not changed)

Page 58. Norwegian and Asian

Page 61. well kept

Page 65. Most high-heel wearers

Page 69. high-heel wear

Page 70. Many high-heel wearers

Page 71. is one of the prime

Page 71. considered non-existent (footnote)

...which makes this Swede wonder again, is there a rule of what should be hyphenated, two words or a single word?

woodscrew - wood screw - wood-screw

I just don't get it.

Hi Milla!

It's complicated, partially because words (adjective/noun, noun/noun, etc) tend to undergo an evolution....starting with two words clearly separated, then to being hyphenated together, and then finally being joined as one word. If you want to learn more, try the Web for 'Compound adjectives' - there are many sites.

When I'm in doubt, which is often , I check with the Oxford Dictionary.

Gone to lunch

So, anything I learned in school 30 years ago would probably have changed by now...
Ah well. I do what I can, then.

Ben, I'm beginning to think that I can't have the most recent update of the Anthology. My post 318 doesn't seem to have produced any changes.

Maybe the lot of us don't agree on everything, and Ben chose according to her heart and taste...