Sunday, June 18, 2017

The Power Of Positive Thinking

I saw the proposed cover of this book. Complete with two glowing testimonials. On an unfinished, unpublished book.


Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and assume enough work has been completed and passed out as a dry run to see how it's going and these testimonials, not yet signed by who actually made the testimonial, are genuine.


The title makes the bold claim about how this is the numbers behind the words for the English language. Try as hard as you can to suggest that research still needs to be done on other languages and yet undiscovered ciphers to decode those it still runs into our friend the Nearly Infinitely Powered Though Utterly Confusing Knuckleheads. Why did the Niptucks allow more than one language. Different alphabets, including squiggly little shapes. What if some lost long deceased tribe in Bora Bora called the moon, "bixphlat" - did the NIPTUCKS decide to eliminate them because they named the moon wrong and didn't want any other confusion than what they already had planned for, say, Chinese?


So the power of positive thinking extends beyond the preemptive testimonials. You've already risked alienating part of your potential purchasers that don't use English at all. Or cleverly planned sequels. Yeah, that's it. In the meantime you can pacify them by reminding them they do use two digit numbers.

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