Tuesday, June 2, 2009

The moment you've been waiting for...

As promised, here comes some World War Z info. I have to say, this is a fantastic book. Thoroughly enjoyable. Nonetheless, as with all print media, this edition has a few errors. If you want to follow along at home, I will be referring to the paperback edition, ISBN 978-0-307-34661-2.

First off, in the early part of the book, there is a footnote stating:

5. Unlike most country's main battle tanks, the Israeli "Merkava" contains rear hatches for troop deployment.

Here is an example of confusion in possessives. The intended meaning is "main battle tanks of most countries," where "countries" is plural. Instead, we have a singular country. So the correction would be "most countries' main battle tanks."

Source: The aforementioned edition, p. 44

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