Grace, Set Upside Down
S01:E03

Grace, Set Upside Down

Episode description

In 1845, a St. Louis compositor setting Der Lutheraner seated one letter upside down, and the word Gnade — grace — went out to the subscribers as Guade. Nobody caught it for 180 years. How hand-set type worked, how a turned letter happens, and how an AI correction pass that was taught to fix its own mistakes and respect everyone else's found it. From the essay at news.collver.biz.

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