Reader JD observes:
(re: the intro to the BerserkerMail podcast)
the girl introducing the podcast calls Troy the “navy new-cue-ler engineer turned email software developer…” Point being it kinda undercuts the prestige you’re building with the whole “former nuclear engineer” moniker.
You know, maybe he has a point?
Let’s take a look and see:
1. The announcer girl is not a New-cue-ler engineer — she’s an entertainer. And the entire intro is just pure entertainment. Admittedly, I assumed that was obvious to anyone listening. But I can assure you, when Troy is yelling at the software team in those intro clips he wasn’t exactly reading out of an English text book, either.
2. I don’t think I’ve ever met a truly brilliant man or woman (150+ IQ) including scientists and engineers who didn’t butcher the English language in some way, whether verbally or in writing (or both), to the point where it’s almost a trope.
3. Caring about a word that not 1 in 1,000+ people would even notice, much less reply guy’ing about, is the epitome of majoring in the minors.
Something else to think about:
When I assembled that intro from some audios of Troy chewing out the old software team (long since fired for not paying attention to details) no mispronunciations were intended or considered either way.
I didn’t even notice it when I heard it myself.
Nor did a single other person we showed it to.
Take, for example:
Troy told me that when he asked the great “King of Email” himself Matt Furey to listen to it for his opinion (Troy was a tad hesitant to run it at first) he said Matt liked it and even urged him to use it.
So I don’t know what else to tell these reply guys.
Other than maybe this:
As much as they might not take Troy seriously now due to what the paid announcer girl entertainer said, I suspect Troy doesn’t take these reply guys majoring in the minors seriously either.
I guess that means they’re both disappointed..
All the above goes for Email Players as well.
I’m far from being a best-speller, and care far more about being a best-seller. And rarely do the twain meet…
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Ben Settle
