Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Jul. 2014
The concept of erratum It has a very widespread and habitual use in the field of literary publishing and also in the media. communication graphics, such as newspapers, magazines, special supplements, among others, because it is precisely used to refer to that mistake in which a printed material made.
Now, it is worth noting that it may be an error, a mistake, made about something that was published, but also the misprint may imply the inaccuracy of a given information, the omission of some crucial detail in the information.
Meanwhile and intimately linked to the concept of errata appears that of errata, whose mission is the amendment of the error or omission incurred in a text or written news.
Now, depending on the medium in question, we will find different modalities of it.
In written journalistic publications, the errata normally appears in the next issue of the newspaper or magazine in which the error or inaccuracy was made, as appropriate. If for example in a
note It was reported that a character had a birthday on December 12 and this is not the case, then, in the next edition of that publicationIn the same section if possible, or in another, a box will be placed indicating the errata with its title and there will be will proceed to clarify that in such number an error was made about the date of birth of the character and clarify which is the one corresponds.In the case of magazines and newspapers, it is usually the protagonists of the news who make the news reach the drafting the complaint about the error made, they clarify it, and then they ask for it to be rectified.
On the other hand, with regard to books, the errata usually accompanies the literary edition in question, that is, In a separate sheet and in which it is clarified that it is an errata, all errors will be recorded: spelling, from writing or punctuation that contains the text.
Normally this type of action is carried out in works that are certainly extensive and whose correction would be really complex to carry out.
It is important that we mention that when errors are made in the text that have to do with the buildingsemantics nothing can do the errata. In this situation, correction should be made on the same error. As we have already said, the errata is intended for spelling errors.
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