Comment by ramphastidae
5 years ago
Quite the hyperbole. The author even points out how this was done without realizing it — purposefully misspelling certain words to get the right character counts.
5 years ago
Quite the hyperbole. The author even points out how this was done without realizing it — purposefully misspelling certain words to get the right character counts.
Chapter 1: 32 justified lines, "futher" for "further".
Chapter 2: 18 justified lines. "missles" for "missiles" but is consistent throughout.
Chapter 3: 61 justified lines. "missles" consistent again. "limitid" for "limited" (same length). "powerfull"/"usefull", yes, but again looks to be consistent throughout. "liek" for "like" (same length). "essentail" for "essential" (same length).
Chapter 4: 88 justified lines. "missles" and double "l" consistent. "mroph" for "morph" (same length). "eleminate" for "eliminate" (same length). "insure" for "ensure" (same length). "wreckless" for "reckless" but in a non-justified line.
Every line is justified when you had good reason for writing it.
Wow, I stand corrected.
Exactly. It might be impressive if it's consistent, or if the number of misspellings is rare. But starting off with a correctly spelt document and then achieving justification by conditionally removing a letter is... not that hard.
Ought to be possible to test this hypothesis (is the justification done by conditional misspellings?) with some simple scripting.
edit: however, it appears that's not what the author did.
Just read the first paragraph of story and... I can't see any misspellings. (Pasting here, the spellcheck points out Samus, Aran, Metroid and "molted", which I thought was OK.) (E: ok, "futher" for "further".)
A couple of missed words or odd linguistic choices, but compared to the number of lines, not many.
The one specific misspelling that the tweeter points out is consistent throughout.
I was curious so I did the requisite short bit of scripting.
I think you're right, the misspellings are independent. For a few words (like "begining") the text contains the correct and a misspelt word. But for most misspelt words ("carefull" for example) the text contains only the misspelling.
Thus, the text being fully justified is independent of the misspelling.
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