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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
Unlike the original publisher, I don't have the luxury of asking the author if he really meant to write that the civil war started in 1816 as opposed to 1861. What do I do with that factual error? Or is it just a typo? Did the typesetter have a liquid lunch?"
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How about just using [sic] after the 1816 date? That is what I would do. This indicates to the reader that, Hey, it's a mistake, and the mistake was in the original, not introduced in the latest edition.
I would probably correct the most obvious simple spelling error--something like the aforementioned "Teh" for "The"--without adding [sic]. If a comma or other punctuation was absolutely needed for clarity, I would include it in brackets, to indicate that it was not part of the original.
I am horrified at the idea of anyone deciding to try to sanitize language to meet current standards of political correctness.