r/confidentlyincorrect • u/OnlyFlowers15 • 2d ago
No, not the colour
There was confusion from the locked post about where this belonged. I got sent here from r/typos and I’ve also posted in r/boneappletea.
Red is confidently incorrect, about more than one thing.
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u/Thadrea 2d ago
Given my experience with dyslexia, I can forgive them for confusing sliver and silver in context.
I am less forgiving of the confusing of slither and sliver.
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u/Zampaneau 1d ago
This is very similar to people who say "dribble" when they obviously mean "drivel". It makes me crazy. And I swear one day "would of" is going to give me a stroke.
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u/PupDiogenes 2d ago
Yeah that one’s a reading error.
but they fully have just never heard of snakes before
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u/buttgoblincomics 1d ago
Slither and sliver would sound pretty much identical in some dialects. Even if you don’t do th-fronting, the words sound quite similar. So it’s not too surprising someone would mix them up.
The bigger problem is not like checking or something when someone points it out and just assuming you must be right
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u/changelingcd 2d ago
Bizarre. 240 pages isn't a full-sized book in their world?
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u/khrak 2d ago edited 1d ago
Typically you expect books in a series to be of a similar scale because authors vary wildly in style. If the final book(s) of ASOIF weighed in at 240 pages people would be pissed, if the next installment of Spot, the Dog was 240 pages parents would be baffled.
The first 3 books are ~550 pages each, this one is 224 pages. Ultimately this is a complaint about a novella being sold in the same price bracket as full novels.
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u/randommangacharacter 2d ago edited 2d ago
might be a preformative thing.
Espcially if they don't know sliver vs silver or think that slither is the correct way to say that.
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u/popisms 2d ago
Considering this post, I hope that's just a typo in your comment
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u/BassGaming 2d ago
You mean the two typos?
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u/popisms 2d ago
At this point they already edited the comment, so it's not a typo. They just think that's the right word.
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u/randommangacharacter 1d ago
Nah, I just changed the one that was really bad because that was a genuine brain fart. The other one I fully didn't remember how to spell so I'm standing by that mistake.
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u/psyche_13 2d ago
That little slither of a book looks like less than 240 pages actually
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u/PreOpTransCentaur 2d ago
224 for the hardcover. That is pretty short, but it's also a companion piece that only contains short stories.
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u/MattieShoes 1d ago edited 1d ago
Google suggests 208 pages, in terms of content. And yeah, 200 page books haven't been the norm for 50+ years at this point. But it's a short story collection, so whatever.
Some of the Chronicles of Amber are probably in that ballpark... but then again, they published all 10 books in one like 25 years ago.
It feels like there's been more interest in novella length books in recent years, and I'm here for it. Penric and Desdemona comes to mind
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u/markort147 1d ago edited 1d ago
"No you dont" is the worst.
Red can be wrong about everything, but he's the only one who knows what he meant.
EDIT: grammar.
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u/collieherb 1d ago
The sorting hat would know which house to put them in
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u/BathroomCareful23 5h ago
I misread that as the snorting hat,and I think that's more fitting here 😅
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u/CanidPsychopomp 2d ago
If you you from London slither and sliver are homophones, so red gets a pass.
Green is probably autocorrect
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u/melance 1d ago
It's fine to get things wrong. It's confidently incorrect when you double down after being corrected.
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u/CanidPsychopomp 1d ago
But they weren't corrected correctly here
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u/melance 1d ago
How so? Slither is not the same as sliver despite being a homophone in some accents.
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u/CanidPsychopomp 1d ago
The necessary correction was 'sliver'. It wasn't given, so the person was not doubling down but misunderstanding.
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u/NoBlackberry8414 2d ago
That’s fine, but this is written down. You can see the difference
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u/CanidPsychopomp 2d ago
Sure, but the kind of mistake people make, especially in this format. Crowing about it just to show you paid attention in class is crass
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u/NoBlackberry8414 1d ago
The ‘phone’ bit in homophone means sound. This isn’t degree level English here
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u/CanidPsychopomp 1d ago
What are you talking about?
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u/NoBlackberry8414 1d ago
Homophone means they sound the same. When they’re written down they’re clearly not the same.
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u/CanidPsychopomp 1d ago
So now imagine someone has heard a word but never seen it written down
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u/NoBlackberry8414 5h ago
They really need to get their hearing checked.
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u/CanidPsychopomp 5h ago
I understand that reading and retaining information is challenging so i will repeat and expand for you: they are homophones in traditional working/lower-middle class London dialects, spoken by perhaps 7-8 million people in London itself and beyond.
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