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From: <nitrogen14@australia.edu>
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> To my mind, it would undercut the joke of calling a real author an
> 'invented philosopher' if VN had intentionally mispelled that man's real
> name. It also would seem odd to credit an actual book (The Ambidextrous
> Universe) and attribute it to an intentionally wrong name. This lifelong
> Gardner fan winces at seeing his name misspelt in ADA.
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
> >To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 1:27 AM
> >Subject: RE: Martin Gardner
> >
> >
> >> "Gardiner" is what VN wrote and is probably his absent-minded error (he
> >made
> >> them easily with proper names) but since that's uncertain it was
> >impossible
> >> to correct.
> >>
> >> Possible errors in careful writers ARE hard to handle. Was the Editor's
> >> "intensional" a typo for "intentional" or a pun on the philosopher's
> >> "intensional"? Should we correct?
> >>
> >> BB
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: D. Barton Johnson
> >> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >> Sent: 2/2/2004 5:32 PM
> >> Subject: Fw: Martin Gardner
> >>
> >> EDRESPONSE. The Library of America edition which is regarded as
> >> definitive
> >> retained the "Gardiner" form so it is apparently intensional although
> >> Martin spells his name Gardner.
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: <nitrogen14@australia.edu>
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> >> > The reference to Martin Gardner in Part Four of Ada, in
> >> > my 1960's penguin edition at least, refers to him as 'Martin
> >> Gardiner'.
> >> >
> >> > Is that a misprint? Or intentional?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >
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From: <nitrogen14@australia.edu>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (52
lines) ------------------
> To my mind, it would undercut the joke of calling a real author an
> 'invented philosopher' if VN had intentionally mispelled that man's real
> name. It also would seem odd to credit an actual book (The Ambidextrous
> Universe) and attribute it to an intentionally wrong name. This lifelong
> Gardner fan winces at seeing his name misspelt in ADA.
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
> >To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 1:27 AM
> >Subject: RE: Martin Gardner
> >
> >
> >> "Gardiner" is what VN wrote and is probably his absent-minded error (he
> >made
> >> them easily with proper names) but since that's uncertain it was
> >impossible
> >> to correct.
> >>
> >> Possible errors in careful writers ARE hard to handle. Was the Editor's
> >> "intensional" a typo for "intentional" or a pun on the philosopher's
> >> "intensional"? Should we correct?
> >>
> >> BB
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: D. Barton Johnson
> >> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >> Sent: 2/2/2004 5:32 PM
> >> Subject: Fw: Martin Gardner
> >>
> >> EDRESPONSE. The Library of America edition which is regarded as
> >> definitive
> >> retained the "Gardiner" form so it is apparently intensional although
> >> Martin spells his name Gardner.
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: <nitrogen14@australia.edu>
> >> > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (7
> >> lines) -------------------
> >> > The reference to Martin Gardner in Part Four of Ada, in
> >> > my 1960's penguin edition at least, refers to him as 'Martin
> >> Gardiner'.
> >> >
> >> > Is that a misprint? Or intentional?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >
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