Philosophical Question

[lavenderbard]

When transcribing someone’s Juvenilia, should one preserve the spelling errors, or not?

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Comments

[lizvogel]

Depends on the purpose of the activity, methinks. Is it to showcase how far the writer has progressed since those early efforts? Then leave them in. Is it to include the work in some collaborative project? Then you're effectively functioning as an editor, and editors clean up spelling. And so on.