Some of what I have learned has ended up as an email. Today isn’t an exception. The book suggested that the word OK came from World War 1 battlefield communications. Apparently, every morning there was a morse code transmission to all troop positions with the numbers of soldiers killed in battle the previous day. 0 k meant no one died, which soon became known as an OK day. It seemed logical to me, but I did some additional research and discovered that the linguists think it came from an editorial joke 175 years ago, well before WW1, and spread from there. I prefer the first explanation because it makes more sense than some dozy editorial joke with a different meaning going viral. Without the book, I probably would never have done the research. The lesson for all of us is that you can never trust what you see, read or hear as being gospel truth. For an example, see the image of the city on Mars that the A.I. tool created for me at . You should question everything because so much is biased by an agenda that’s not in your favour. The question to ask is, “What if you’re wrong?“. Regards, P.S. While I always do my best to point you in the right direction, there is no guarantee that what I think is the right way is right for you. Only you can determine that. Whether you want to write stories, novels, blog posts, emails, tweets, sales letters, etc., you will have to write something to market online. The goal of all that writing is to persuade the reader to take some action. To that end, it’s in your best interests to make sure that your writing is persuasive and the best place to develop that skill is here. |
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