{"id":10746,"date":"2011-08-18T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10746"},"modified":"2011-08-18T10:54:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T14:54:33","slug":"this-is-so-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/18\/this-is-so-true\/","title":{"rendered":"This is so true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By way of <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/08\/18\/muphrys-law-the-inevitability-of-typos-in-discussions-of-proofreading.html?dlvrit=36761\" target=\"_blank\">Cory Doctorow&#8217;s post at BoingBoing<\/a>, the wonderfully accurate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorscanberra.org\/muphrys-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">Muphry&#8217;s Law<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Muphry\u2019s Law is the editorial application of the better-known Murphy\u2019s Law. Muphry\u2019s Law dictates that:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>if you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault in what you have written;<\/li>\n<li>if an author thanks you in a book for your editing or proofreading, there will be mistakes in the book;<\/li>\n<li>the stronger the sentiment in (a) and (b), the greater the fault; and<\/li>\n<li>any book devoted to editing or style will be internally inconsistent.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Muphry\u2019s Law also dictates that, if a mistake is as plain as the nose on your face, everyone can see it but you. Your readers will always notice errors in a title, in headings, in the first paragraph of anything, and in the top lines of a new page. These are the very places where authors, editors and proofreaders are most likely to make mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>It always pays to allow for Muphry in anything you write, or anything you are checking.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By way of Cory Doctorow&#8217;s post at BoingBoing, the wonderfully accurate Muphry&#8217;s Law: Muphry\u2019s Law is the editorial application of the better-known Murphy\u2019s Law. Muphry\u2019s Law dictates that: if you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault in what you have written; if an author thanks you in a book for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28],"tags":[82,133,134],"class_list":["post-10746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","tag-murphy","tag-techwriting","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Nk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10748,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746\/revisions\/10748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}