Auffie’s Random Thoughts

Thursday, October 07, 2004

$40,000 mural has misspellings of names

AP reports from Livermore, California, that the city library has just unveiled a $40,000 mural that has 175 names on it, 11 of which are misspelled. The picture shows Einstein misspelled as Eistein. The final two paragraphs of the story are revealing:

The mistakes wouldn't even register with a true artisan, Alquilar said.

"The people that are into humanities, and are into Blake's concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the words," she said. "In their mind the words register correctly."

Wouldn’t even register with a true artisan?

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