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Old 09-30-2011, 03:50 PM   #31
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http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazo...eaders-revolt/

One reader produced text copies of both the old and new versions (undoubtedly having to crack DRM illegally to do so) and ran them through the diff comparison tool to find out what had been changed, and it turned out that the changes were not major: a few missing words here and there had been corrected, the spelling of the cover artist’s name had been fixed—and in one case, a new typo was introduced!
Just checked the American epub and the typos are in this version too.
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Old 09-30-2011, 04:15 PM   #32
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The UK version seems to be more complete. The only typos I have seen so far are several uses of the word of instead of off...
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Wich I, as a non natural english speaking person, also get confused by.
Is there a rule as to when its off or of?
Like "i before e, except after c"?
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Wich I, as a non natural english speaking person, also get confused by.
Is there a rule as to when its off or of?
Like "i before e, except after c"?
Both words are used in many circumstances, eg, you "turn off a light", you "set off on a journey", you "blast off in a rocket". The general idea, though, is changing from one state to another.

"Of" is a preposition and is used in a whole host of circumstances that you basically, as a language learner, just need to memorize, I'm afraid.
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Harry, I am a native English speaker and I still get confused when thinking about one off vs one of. That's a slang thing though.
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