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Funny typo in a newspaper cost 60 thousand
In the history of mankind were typos and expensive. Especially when the wrong brokers on the exchanges.
But they were not as funny as the typo.
Tula newspaper "Sloboda" printed advertising "Weight loss without dieting", skipping the letter 'd ».
Attentive reader complained to the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Tula region and the newspaper was sentenced to a fine of 60 thousand rubles.
Revision "Sloboda" does not agree with this decision and appealed to the arbitration court. The materials have been sent for examination to the Guild of linguistic experts on documentary and informational disputes (Gladys).
Its head, Professor Gorbanevskiy commented: "foul language, like any other, becomes the object of lexical and graphic description. However, none of the nine Russian dictionaries mat required word is not fixed. »
It turns funny situation. The newspaper was fined for the typo, because of which turned obscene word indecent as it is not.