http://www.independent.co.uk/news/corrections/errors-and-omissions/?service=Rss http://www.independent.co.uk/news/corrections/errors-and-omissions/errors--omissions-once-upon-a-time-people-could-distinguish-fairy-tale-from-reality-1829894.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/corrections/errors-and-omissions/errors--omissions-once-upon-a-time-people-could-distinguish-fairy-tale-from-reality-1829894.html <p>I hate to break this to you, but Mickey Mouse, Snow White and Pinocchio are fictional characters. Somebody made them up. When you watch a Disney film – indeed any film – the people on the screen are not really there. You are choosing to suspend disbelief in an illusion created by artifice.</p> Errors & Omissions Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/corrections/errors-and-omissions/errors--omissions-sometimes-just-the-simple-facts-will-do-ndash-and-no-fatuous-extras-1824965.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/corrections/errors-and-omissions/errors--omissions-sometimes-just-the-simple-facts-will-do-ndash-and-no-fatuous-extras-1824965.html <p>If you try to tart up simple information with topical chat you risk turning fatuous. An article on Wednesday about design discussed the origins of the word "ergonomics": "Those who are irritated by composites like Brangelina or Jedward won't like this, but ergonomics is a portmanteau word too – a combination of the Greek ergos and nomos (work and natural laws)."</p> Errors & Omissions Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/corrections/errors-and-omissions/errors-amp-omissions-the-cost-of-war-in-afghanistan-1824665.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/corrections/errors-and-omissions/errors-amp-omissions-the-cost-of-war-in-afghanistan-1824665.html <p> In last Sunday's article, 'Vast Majority of Britons back IoS call for UK forces to leave', we referred to Oxfam's report, The Cost of War in Afghanistan. We would like to make it clear that this report reflected the cost of the war over the last thirty years and not merely the last eight years.' </p> Errors & Omissions Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:16:26 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/corrections/errors-and-omissions/errors--omissions-shocking-revelation-other-rival-newspapers-really-do-exist-1816592.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/corrections/errors-and-omissions/errors--omissions-shocking-revelation-other-rival-newspapers-really-do-exist-1816592.html <p>Remember the email from the late Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe complaining about a lack of helicopters in Afghanistan? Well, I'm going to tell you a secret. The existence of the email was first disclosed in the Daily Mail.</p> Errors & Omissions Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/corrections/errors-and-omissions/errors--omissions-a-stones-throw-from-yet-another-tiresome-clich-1812299.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/corrections/errors-and-omissions/errors--omissions-a-stones-throw-from-yet-another-tiresome-clich-1812299.html <p> An arresting quotation drew the reader in to a report on Monday about a secondary school with its own small zoo. "'You want the head's study?' the receptionist asked. 'It's past the ducks and the alpaca and then it's on the left.'" </p> Errors & Omissions Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000