{"id":18414,"date":"2021-10-01T10:14:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T17:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18414"},"modified":"2021-10-01T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T17:14:52","slug":"typos-that-reverse-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2021\/10\/01\/typos-that-reverse-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Typos that reverse meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>It\u2019s fairly common for a writer to accidentally leave out the word <i>not<\/i> and thereby write the opposite of what they intended.<\/p>\r\n<p>But I feel like it\u2019s less common for other kinds of typos to result in a reversal of meaning.<\/p>\r\n<p>I just came across one:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>It was an intense feeling of fatherless.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Based on context, I think that was meant to say something like <i>fatherliness<\/i>; the sentence before and the sentence after make clear that the feeling being described has to do with feeling loved and approved-of by a particular fatherly person. But dropping the <i>in<\/i> from the middle of the word turns it into its opposite.<\/p>\r\n<p>(I came across this in Nina Kiriki Hoffman\u2019s 2003 story \u201cFlotsam,\u201d as reprinted in <cite>The Year\u2019s Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection<\/cite>.)<\/p>\r\n<p>I welcome other examples.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18415,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18414\/revisions\/18415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}