RE: Old Uleria write-up

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From: Norbert Franz <norbert.franz1_at_...>
Date: 29 Mar 2005 19:06 GMT

<paul_at_...> wrote:

> <    asolovay_at_... wrote:


>  > 

>  > Norbert Franz [mailto:norbert.franz1_at_...] 

>  > >

>  > >   "Most stories about the goddess are sensual and _chotic_."

>  >

> > Maybe "chthonic", i.e. "of or relating to the underworld"? It doesn't
> > seem to really match Uleria, but it *is* a Greggish kind of word, yes?
>
> I think I understand now - it is meant to be "erotic", but I don't think that it is a typographical error. It IS the sort of error we would expect to see from using OCR on scanned text - 'c' and 'e' are pretty close in shape and while getting 'h' from 'r' is a bigger stretch but possible, especially if the scan or the original were of low quality.
>

Yup, that must be it.
This also explains how "car" crept into the text instead of "ear", and "erotocornatose" instead of "erotocomatose".

A consonant sequence like -m- is often taken as -rn- and vice versa, in manuscripts as well as in bad xeroxes.

Norbert