[LMB] OT: When Favourite Authors Screw Up

[Claudia Muir]

raye_j at yahoo.com wrote:
>> Anyone else encountered something like that, where
>> what should be a casually passed-over aside hits just
>> the right way to reveal a sad lack of research, and
>> colours the rest of the book?
German language used in books is often wrong.  I would say that 98% of 
all German used in English texts has some mistake, either in respect to 
spelling or grammar.  "A tree grows in Brooklyn" is one of my pet peeves 
- wonderful book but the Austrian character speaks really dreadful 
German.  Same in many SF novels - how much work can it be to find a 
native speaker and go over that bit of German? I'd be happy to proofread 
for no renumeration! It speaks of laziness to me and it riles me, every 
time.

Claudia - the pedantic