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Not knowing the language might even help in accuracy, though probably not in speed! I've heard that copy editors would sometimes read the text backwards as that
by tgb 9y ago
Not knowing the language might even help in accuracy, though probably not in speed! I've heard that copy editors would sometimes read the text backwards as that made spelling errors more obvious. When read as part of a sentence it's easy to skip over a spelling mistake.
- thaumasiotes 9y agoDifferent classes of transcription error tend to come from literate vs illiterate transcribers. I believe haplography and dittography (writing a sequence of letters once when it should be written twice, or twice when it should be written once) are more common from illiterate transcribers.