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Thanks for the warning -- perhaps you should have bowed out after the*** You're are right again, Bernard.
first rewrite?
Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 22:56:57 -0800 Bernard Cleyet<anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>
writes:ABSOLUTELY
Herb!
You're just modest, they consulted you, did they not?
Bernard!
It is partially true that I'm just modest ....... but it is
FALSE to say that Prentics Hall consulted me in the preparationany
portion of their Webster's Collegate Dictionary.two or
The only consultation that I provided for Prentice Hall took place
three months ago. I contributed some interesting and novel labbooks.
exercises to be included in one of their new pre-college science
Although my work was approved by them, it took about a whole weekto
conceive, write, and rewrite and rewrite several times to theirtotal of
specifications (including artwork sketches), they paid me a
$40 ..... which is about a dollar an hour before taxes.Prentice-Hall,
I sincerely hope that others who provide consultation for
and whose work is approved by them, will be offered a moresubstantial
sum for their time and effort.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Herb Gottlieb from New York City
theHerbert H Gottlieb wrote (in response to a comment that we coin
wordDictionary...
"potentiometer" as an instrument to measure electric potentials).
*** Again, according to my Prentice-Hall Webster's
dictionary.
"po-ten-ti-om-e-ter an instrument for measuring comparing, or
controlling, electric potentials."
...so whether or not it is good, it is already in the
Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where we can see Englewood Cliffs, the home of Prentice Hall
dictionaries, across the Hudson River)