Did I spot Gaudere's Law at work in an Isaac Asimov Novel?? (spoilers for Rest of the

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…Robots (ran out of space)
In the last story of ‘The Rest Of The Robots’ entitled ‘GALLEY SLAVE’ is what appears to be a spelling error in a sentence who’s context is the issue of another’s spelling or grammar error.

EZ (‘Easy’) is listing errors in a book given him by Lanning. His last sentence is this.

"The plus sign in equation XIV-2 on page 337 should be a minus sign if it is to be consisten with the previous equations-----’

‘consisten’ is not a valid word, am I right? I see no evidence of an ink error. It appears to be an honest omission of the last ‘t’.

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The “t” is there in my edition of the book. The mistake is by the typesetter of that particular edition.

And I am obliged to point out that you meant “whose” not “who’s”. :smiley:

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Uncanny. Honestly, it’s starting to creep me out.

–Cliffy

P.S. I’ve already corrected nine typos in this post alone.

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:confused: “Gaudere’s Law”?

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The person pointing out an error in someone else’s post (usually in punctuation or spelling) will make a similar mistake in their own post while doing so.

Grim
(hoping he hasn’t made a mistake somewhere)