Legal Whoops!

Shades of The Prisoner

by Lionel Levanthal

A small notice about an unfortunate errata slip appeared in the trade press. The errata slip is from a legal text book and reads:

"The publisher and printer would like to apologise for a minor error that occurred during the printing process due to a bug in the software system that is used to prepare the book for printing.

The word 'translate' is used as a word of command in the software system and has become 'pop pop' in the book. The error occurs on the following pages: 28, 40, 86, 149, 186, 189, 199, 349, 449, 478, 577 and 580. The text, for example on page 28, reads: 'We then examine some of the ways in which these values are pop popd into political principles such as the goal of sustainable development...' "


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