Houston, You Have a Problem

On Jul 21, 7:45 am, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:
"Danny Deger" wrote in message

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I just got feedback I should pull my book because I tell such a good tale,
the government might do something nasty to me. I don't think so, but I
found it an indication my book struck a coard with at least one person.

What's a coard?

Being in agreement with?

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Danny Deger" wrote in message
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I just got feedback I should pull my book because I tell such a good
tale,
the government might do something nasty to me. I don't think so, but I
found it an indication my book struck a coard with at least one person.


What's a coard?


General agreement

On Jul 21, 5:48 am, "Anopheles" wrote:
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in s.earthlink.net...



"Danny Deger" wrote in message
.. .

I just got feedback I should pull my book because I tell such a good
tale,
the government might do something nasty to me. I don't think so, but I
found it an indication my book struck a coard with at least one person.

What's a coard?

General agreement

Does it matter? Aren't they hanging him in the morning?
Alan

In a previous article, "Steven P. McNicoll" said:
"Danny Deger" wrote in message
.. .

I just got feedback I should pull my book because I tell such a good tale,
the government might do something nasty to me. I don't think so, but I
found it an indication my book struck a coard with at least one person.


What's a coard?

It's how a writer tells you he really, really, really needs an editor.



--
Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
You've got to love a newsreader with a menu option named "Kill this Author".
Does it work? And if so, is the death traceable?
Nah, but Dave the Resurrector will just bring 'em back again.

By implication Anopheles, you, and I are in a coard on the editor
observation, although I would not like my own postings scanned two
carefully for korrect spelling and usage.

Tina.

On Jul 21, 9:16 am, (Paul Tomblin) wrote:
In a previous article, "Steven P. McNicoll" said:

"Danny Deger" wrote in message
.. .

I just got feedback I should pull my book because I tell such a good tale,
the government might do something nasty to me. I don't think so, but I
found it an indication my book struck a coard with at least one person.

What's a coard?

It's how a writer tells you he really, really, really needs an editor.

--
Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
You've got to love a newsreader with a menu option named "Kill this Author".
Does it work? And if so, is the death traceable?
Nah, but Dave the Resurrector will just bring 'em back again.

From Paul Tomblin:
In a previous article, "Steven P. McNicoll" said:

"Danny Deger" wrote in message
.. .

I just got feedback I should pull my book because I tell such a good tale,
the government might do something nasty to me. I don't think so, but I
found it an indication my book struck a coard with at least one person.

What's a coard?

It's how a writer tells you he really, really, really needs an editor.

Finding many of these types of errors in the given text does make a
definite statement about credibility, particularly when presenting
oneself as a straight-A student.


~ CT

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Finding many of these types of errors in the given text does make a
definite statement about credibility, particularly when presenting
oneself as a straight-A student.


Give me a brake. I was a straight-A engineering student, not a straight-A
English student :-)

Don't you know that engineering ability is inversly proportional to spelling
ability?

Danny Deger
www.dannydeger.net

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
link.net...

"Danny Deger" wrote in message
...

I just got feedback I should pull my book because I tell such a good
tale,
the government might do something nasty to me. I don't think so, but I
found it an indication my book struck a coard with at least one person.


What's a coard?



It should have been chord and it is "an individual emotion or disposition
struck a responsive chord"

Danny Deger

"Danny Deger" wrote in message
...

It should have been chord and it is "an individual emotion or disposition
struck a responsive chord"


Why wasn't it chord?

On Jul 21, 1:57 pm, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:
"Danny Deger" wrote in message

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It should have been chord and it is "an individual emotion or disposition
struck a responsive chord"

Why wasn't it chord?

Yep, Danny, you got something here. You can tell by the ones who
don't. You already have followers. Can't call you a liar, you have
the docs.