HCC/LNHY/LNH/LNH20/ACRA: Looniverse Y #10 (HCC27)

Martin Phipps martinphipps2 at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 27 03:31:59 PST 2012


On Feb 27, 12:46 am, Saxon Brenton <saxonbren... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Martin noted:
>
> >>      Later that week the coroner, Dr Scon, admitted both Karen Manx and
> >> Carl Hernandez into the morgue.
>
> > Ah what a difference one preposition makes!  ("into" rather than "to")
>
> ohmygosh.  I completely missed that (was hurriedly typing up the last bit
> of at 10:30 last night, and only gave it a spell check review before
> posting).  Looking over the few sentences on either side of the scene break,
> I could have had lots of fun playing with peoples' headspaces.  Ah well,
> a lost opportunity, but entirely my own fault.

You're kidding.  I thought they were goners.  I had to read the
sentence several times before I realized they were being admitted INTO
the morgue.  I thought _that_ was the surprise, that they weren't
toast.

Martin


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