Un registro imperfecto
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The archive's oldest visitor book was initially treated as a reliable record of who had attended the lectures. On closer inspection, however, its neat columns concealed a less straightforward picture. Some visitors had signed on behalf of relatives, while others had written nothing beyond their initials. The absence of a name could therefore reflect a hurried departure rather than an absence from the event itself. This didn't make the book worthless, but it did limit the conclusions we could reasonably draw from it. Our task was to describe those limits without replacing uncertainty with an equally unsupported account. We retained the original entries and added a brief note explaining how they had been collected. Anyone consulting the record would then be able to distinguish what the page actually showed from what we had inferred. It was a modest change, yet an important one: a document can remain useful even when its apparent precision has been questioned.
- The archives oldest → The archive's oldest
«The archive's oldest»: El informe o registro pertenece a un solo referente; el posesivo singular se escribe con ’s.
- its neat collums → its neat columns
«its neat columns»: Columns conserva la n antes de la s plural, aunque no se pronuncie una n independiente.
- on behave of → on behalf of
«on behalf of»: On behalf of significa en nombre de alguien; behalf es un sustantivo y no el verbo behave.
- This didnt → This didn't
«This didn't»: El apóstrofo señala las letras omitidas en la contracción; quitarlo altera su escritura.
- we had infered → we had inferred
«we had inferred»: Esta palabra conserva su consonante doble; no la reduzcas aunque no se oigan dos consonantes separadas.
- its apparant precision → its apparent precision
«its apparent precision»: Apparent, aparente, lleva e en la última sílaba escrita; no a.
Compara por separado palabras oídas y ortografía. No hay nota automática. Se admite otra puntuación normativa que conserve relaciones y sentido; un cambio de coma no implica una palabra mal oída. Revisa mayúsculas y diacríticos después con el modelo.
Conserva las palabras, su orden, artículos, preposiciones y terminaciones. No sustituyas por sinónimos ni expandas contracciones. Las seis notas son ejemplos de revisión: coteja el texto entero, no solo esas seis zonas.
Apóstrofos rectos y curvos son equivalentes; conserva contracciones y posesivos.