Chrysalis Academy Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Ok, I know others have posted about moments when they wanted to throw an MCT book across the room - I just had my first one!! On p. 59 of Paragraph Town, the ducks are discussing a scrambled paragraph, one that contains sentences about insects and sentences about ducks. Then Queequack says "Is there any sentence that might have been in either group" Fishmeal says yes, the one about the spinal cord, which reads "They are vertebrates, with a spinal chord extending through their bodies." So then Queequack answers "Right, birds and insects are both animals, and both have spinal chords for their nervous systems." :001_huh: So not only are we studying biology, but Miss P is also crazy about insects. She is going to flip her lid when we read this!! :lol::lol::lol: Sigh. I love MCT's materials, but I really, really wish they would hire a good copy editor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Ok, I know others have posted about moments when they wanted to throw an MCT book across the room - I just had my first one!! On p. 59 of Paragraph Town, the ducks are discussing a scrambled paragraph, one that contains sentences about insects and sentences about ducks. Then Queequack says "Is there any sentence that might have been in either group" Fishmeal says yes, the one about the spinal cord, which reads "They are vertebrates, with a spinal chord extending through their bodies." So then Queequack answers "Right, birds and insects are both animals, and both have spinal chords for their nervous systems." :001_huh: So not only are we studying biology, but Miss P is also crazy about insects. She is going to flip her lid when we read this!! :lol::lol::lol: Sigh. I love MCT's materials, but I really, really wish they would hire a good copy editor! Yeah, we got a good laugh about that one. We have decided that MCT is good at grammar, but has a lot to learn about biology! That one is the most egregious, but we also realized that the bird in Grammar/Sentence Island is not a sandpiper, but a woodcock. Woodcocks' habitat is woodlands, not island shorelines. (Yes, they are related to sandpipers and found in the same section of the bird guide. But sorry, different habitats). Yes, he is in desperate need of a copy editor (although we have loved the materials). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Not to be totally nerdy, but that's not a copy editor issue; it's a content editor issue. They serve different functions. ;) Tara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted September 6, 2012 Author Share Posted September 6, 2012 Not to be totally nerdy, but that's not a copy editor issue; it's a content editor issue. They serve different functions. ;) Tara :lol: Welll, he needs both!! (And apparently I need a content editor myself!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitterpatter Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 That's horrible...just horrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbmamaz Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 I vaguely remember doing a double-take on that one. My ds is big on animals. I told him not to worry about it and moved on . . . we just were desperate for help in how to write a paragraph! i still want to know if anyone else wanted to scratch their eyes out (like we did) after the squirrels essay in voyage . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloha2U Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 i still want to know if anyone else wanted to scratch their eyes out (like we did) after the squirrels essay in voyage . . . Please share! Inquiring minds want to know... and prepare ourselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen500 Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 I vaguely remember doing a double-take on that one. My ds is big on animals. I told him not to worry about it and moved on . . . we just were desperate for help in how to write a paragraph! i still want to know if anyone else wanted to scratch their eyes out (like we did) after the squirrels essay in voyage . . . We haven't gotten to that chapter yet, but I think my boys will like this one! (I looked ahead--it's a passage by John Muir) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessed3x Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 :lol: Welll, he needs both!! (And apparently I need a content editor myself!) :iagree: with the bolded. We *love* his books. DS enjoys them more than anything else we have tried, but the typos and mistakes are k.i.l.l.i.n.g me. Just saying.... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 This came up on the MCT group a while back. I believe that MCT stood by the statement--something about a nerve cord maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen500 Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 This came up on the MCT group a while back. I believe that MCT stood by the statement--something about a nerve cord maybe? But I really like that he is open for discussions about his books and language in general. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 "They are vertebrates, with a spinal chord extending through their bodies." This came up on the MCT group a while back. I believe that MCT stood by the statement--something about a nerve cord maybe? Uh, no, sorry. A nerve cord does not have vertebral column nor is it a spinal cord. And insects are most definitely classified as invertebrates. The vertebrae are the bones around the spinal cord, after all - Vertebrates have the bones, invertebrates don't. Insects do not have bones. And the term spinal cord also refers to the bones - the spine is the bones around the chord itself - no spine, no spinal cord. But I also thought I remember seeing this discussed, and that he said "my bad". Well, something to that effect. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrappyhappymama Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Uh, no, sorry. A nerve cord does not have vertebral column nor is it a spinal cord. And insects are most definitely classified as invertebrates. The vertebrae are the bones around the spinal cord, after all - Vertebrates have the bones, invertebrates don't. Insects do not have bones. And the term spinal cord also refers to the bones - the spine is the bones around the chord itself - no spine, no spinal cord. But I also thought I remember seeing this discussed, and that he said "my bad". Well, something to that effect. :) LOL. Somehow I have a hard time imagining MCT saying "My bad." :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbkaren Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Not to be totally nerdy, but that's not a copy editor issue; it's a content editor issue. They serve different functions. ;) Tara Maybe both - the copy editor would've caught the "chord" spelling error... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Uh, no, sorry. A nerve cord does not have vertebral column nor is it a spinal cord. And insects are most definitely classified as invertebrates. The vertebrae are the bones around the spinal cord, after all - Vertebrates have the bones, invertebrates don't. Insects do not have bones. And the term spinal cord also refers to the bones - the spine is the bones around the chord itself - no spine, no spinal cord. But I also thought I remember seeing this discussed, and that he said "my bad". Well, something to that effect. :) I just looked it up, because I remember being amazed at his response about the nerve cord, but I must have dreamed the whole thing, because what I found was him saying that he knew it was an error and he thought it had been corrected. So, *my* bad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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