Find and replace my boyfriend

Dec 12, 2011 21:59

When I read this article, it wasn't the content that made me shiver as though I'd ice-cubed my dorsal ridge, but the amendment note:

This article was amended on Sunday 4 December. In the original, "danger" was misspelt as "benger" on two occasions. This has been correctedBy coincidence, I'd been find-and-replacing the names of half the characters ( Read more... )

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venta December 13 2011, 11:28:08 UTC
I just read a whodunnit where part of the plot hinged on someone having done a seach-and-replace on names in such a way that a (third) name had become unexpectedly changed. (And unnoticeably changed, in that it still read sensibly).

It was possibly the most plausible part of the plot, actually ;)

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slightlyfoxed December 14 2011, 10:13:58 UTC
That's pretty brilliant. Substitution has a pleasantly uncanny feel to it that would go well with deception/murder/mystery etc.

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menthe_reglisse December 13 2011, 13:44:05 UTC
My undergrad dissertation nearly had an initial signposting paragraph laying out what was discussed in the first, second and third churchions. In my defence, it was 1992 and we were all a lot less familiar with search-and-replace technologies.

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slemslempike December 13 2011, 18:47:06 UTC
What was churchion originally?

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menthe_reglisse December 13 2011, 20:47:45 UTC
Ah, you have to work that out. This is slightlyfoxed's LJ so I'm allowed to be baffling and allusive. It might (or might not) be some help if I tell you that my dissertation compared 16th century Protestant and Catholic hagiographies.

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