Not so bad, right? It's an interesting post about some homophobic moron (who also happens to be a mayor) making a claim about his town's drinking water turning people into gays. It was a truly life-changing read, a wonderful way to spend 54 seconds of my life. However, nothing about that article truly caught my eye...
...that is, until I re-read it. Take a look at the second to last paragraph, where it says:
It's not the first eyebrow-raising claim about homosexuality to emerge out of Peru. Last year, Bolivian President Evo Morales...
I'm sorry, what? Please check me into a mental hospital, because we were just learning about South America in (one of my non-memorable classes). I do not remember studying about Peru, the capitol of Bolivia. Just to be sure of myself (because I can be wrong), I performed a google images search check, which confirmed my suspicions:
Map of PERU
Map of BOLIVIA
When you compare the two maps, they look the same. I understand that. But look closer, and you begin to realize that the borders are different shapes, the water/land percentages are different, the capitols are in different locations, and the cities are named differently.
Evidently, the author meant to say "emerge out of South America" or "Peruvian President..." but didn't quite get there. Things like this happen all the time to me, I admit that, but I always catch the error immediately. I picked up on this one right away so either there was no editor for this article, or he/she wasn't paying attention.
Yes, this is a typo and I rejoice [because it gives me material]. Recently I published an article about the lack of editing in professional publications on the internet. Let me clear something up before I'm attacked for it: this column isn't a professional publication. I don't edit my articles the way I would expect MSNBC or the Huffington Post to edit theirs. Of course, there are going to be lots of grammatical errors in my work, but I do not make mistakes like that, which should have been spotted and corrected.
Breaking news: America's King, David Cameron, will be speaking on interplanetary relations with Canada momentarily...
EDIT: The error was corrected on the site. However, I assumed when I wrote this (and I am kicking myself for doing so) that the error was "emerge out of Peru", not "Peruvian President", but because it was the latter of the two it only makes me take another look. I can understand, from experience, that the author may have been thinking Peru in his head and typed it on the page, but to insert a completely different country in the mix halfway through the paragraph?
