Indications that you should probably just put down the 18th-century documents and call it a day:
1. Mentally reading all the long Ss as Fs, no matter how much better you know.
2. Finding the above hilarious.
Academic
- 11D
- A Ianqui in the Village
- Academic Cog
- Academic Librarian
- Acephalous
- always listen to your pig-puppet
- Center of Gravitas
- Confessions of a Community College Dean
- Diary of a Dandelion Diva
- Early Modern Life is Rubbish
- Falling Leaves
- Feminist Avatar
- Is there no sin in it?
- it's probably me
- Lecturer Notes
- Literature Compass
- Minor Revisions
- New Kid on the Hallway
- Not of General Interest
- Professing Mama
- Prone to Laughter
- Reassigned Time
- scatterplot
- Slaves of Academe
- Tenured Radical
- The Adventures of Notorious Ph.D., Girl Scholar
- The Doctor Isn't
- The Salt-Box
- The Valve
- What Now?
- What the hell is wrong with you?
Rest of the world
About Me
- September Blue
- Arts postdoc with a new job, a new city, and a lot of very old books.
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The other day I was looking at a transcription that I had done of a document and noticed that all my Vs were Bs and realised right away that was because v's looklike b's but sat there a bit bewildered as to why I hadn't realised that at the time, despite coping with this phenomenon in numerous other documents.
Brain just wasn't working that day I guess.
It's too funny! I ran into the same deal when I was transcribing a title page for my Bib Methods class:
THE|LIFE AND ADVENTURES|OF|Mr. BAMPFYLDE-MOORE CAREW, |COMMONLY CALLED|THE KING OF THE BEGGARS: |BEING an impartial Account of his LIFE, from his| leaving Tiverton School, at the Age of Fifteen, and| entering into a Society of GYPSIES, to the prefent| Time; wherein the Motives of his Conduct will be| explained, and the great Number of Characters and | Shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, | Ireland, and feveral other Places of Europe, be re- | lated; with his Travels twice through great Part of |America. | A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT| OF the Origin, Government, Language, Laws, and | Cuftoms of the GYPSIES; their Method of Electing| their King, &c. |Totus Mundus agit Hiflrionem. | A NEW EDITION.| LONDON:| Printed for, and fold by the Bookfellers in Town and|Country.