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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

....Hmmm... in this book, is it typically only ONE Huichol or Spanish word that is in italics, or is it a whole Huichol and Spanish phrase, followed by English words?

It was, for example, "The mara’akame was asked to dream about the problem to come up with an answer."

Thus the proper italicizing of the Huichol word carried on for a bit into the English for no apparent reason. This could also happen in the references, capitalizing a book title then the editor or date after, so I had to watch carefully for that. Also from time to time the OCR would italicized random words (as noted in the sample I made). It made me wonder if I should have been keeping track of those (special?) words in case some extraterrestrial or future intelligence was trying to contact me

But! even with the mistakes, it was a zillion times better than having to type everything by hand...! Also when I was done, I realized the book used English, Huichol, Spanish, French, German and Latin (the last three nearly entirely in book titles, but still!). I should have charged more At least I learned a lot about those native Mexicans.