User talk:Jane Fairfax

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Again, welcome! John Vandenberg 21:34, 6 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi again, regarding this, I think "flagrant" might have been in the original. I've checked google books, another online copy, and, and they all use "flagrant". John Vandenberg 22:55, 11 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Very well – as long as all those sources are not copying from each other. Jane Fairfax 09:28, 16 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Page:Jane Eyre.djvu/253 - you were right! It should have been "fragrant".  My apologies. John Vandenberg (chat) 01:50, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


 * In regards to this, two different books on Google use "seared vision" . John Vandenberg (chat) 23:34, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I have set up a proper proof-reading project at "Index:Jane Eyre.djvu"; I am not 100% sure what edition it is, but it appears to be the second edition. On page 379, that edition uses "seared". John Vandenberg (chat) 01:42, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I have set up another proof-reading project for a different edition, "Index:Life and Works of the Sisters Bronte - Volume I.djvu". I've quickly checked page 408 and 602, which confirms it was "fragrant" and "seared". John Vandenberg (chat) 03:23, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


 * The original version of Jane Eyre on Wikisource was a shambles – especially with regards to the French passages. I have just taken the trouble and done a major clean-up of all the stupid mistakes in it. Look. Charlotte Brontë knew enough French, thanks to her studies at Brussells, and could not possibly have written such horrible-looking French as what appeared in the shitty version originally uploaded to Wikisource.Jane Fairfax 22:51, 19 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh my. Your opinion of me is full of flavour.  No, I am not American; I am Australian.  And, I am the fucker who noticed you were doing a good job of improving our text (which wasn't contributed by me), and I set up two transcription projects for you at Index:Jane Eyre.djvu and Index:Life and Works of the Sisters Bronte - Volume I.djvu, which allows us to check what was actually printed rather than guessing.
 * As you haven't started working on the transcription project, I started to transcribe the actual printed text myself.
 * John Vandenberg (chat) 23:45, 19 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I have just now revised Chapter XIII, using the images starting here. Needless to say, you had missed many errors.  I have probably missed many errors as well. John Vandenberg (chat) 00:27, 20 February 2008 (UTC)