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I just got thinking about this. I have noticed, while I have been on Hatrack, that a lot of people pay money when they give their opinion. Often this is either two cents, or two pence.
My question is this:
Where is all this money? It's got to add up overtime, so there must be many thousands of dollars/pounds by now.
Does it go to KDW and OSC for a slap up meal?
Another question:
What about inflation? I have concerns that if the cost of giving advice goes up, people may become reticent about giving their '...three cents worth'--or, god forbid, '...four cents worth'.
I was thinking of starting the our own 'two cents' fund (for those that insist on paying to give advice) of which, I would nominate myself as treasurer.
Simply send your two cents (and whatever advice you wish to pay to give--I'll read it!) to my email address via paypal.
REAL QUESTION...why do we say this?
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Oh, I thought they were saying 'to sense' as in to have a feeling about something...like most peoples 6th sense on my 1st 13 is to say "I see dead prose" or in broader terms "to sense worth" and noting whether something is worthy or not worthy.
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Actually, it goes to buy goodies that we dangle before the tech gnomes so they'll keep running in their little wheels (sort of like hamster wheels) to keep this place working.
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There's probably some long ago lost letter to an editor in a dead periodical archive with a salutation that reads, Respectfully, as posting this letter cost me all of two pence, that's all, my two-pence' worth. Yours, (signed) Jack Tar.
There's that delightful other metaphor of English tolltaking, spend a penny.
Mind your P's and Q's (pints and quarts, as adjudicated by courts of Oyer and Terminer), literally, else you'll receive/give short measure.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Literally. A full-sized, engraved illustration in periodicals of yore earned the engraver the equivalent pay of one thousand words, about the amount of real estate above the fold of a broadsheet format newspaper, roughly 17" by 11" or six columns 11" high. An illustration sans border and padding and caption and headline and credits occupies roughly 50 column inches, 25 to 35 words per column inch. Pennies were paid per column inch to periodical writers in ye olden days.
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It's your basic qualifying statement. Probably an artifact of the lack of non-verbal communication in writing. No one wants to sound like a know-it-all, so they say "that's my worthless opinion, take it or leave it."
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Oh, see I always thought people were going to give me the money. It stays at 2 cents because, well, when there's no demand it's hard to raise prices.
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I'll take another angle, not that I think it came from this since I just thought of it. It seems like the same thing as "twenty bucks says you can't jump over that parking meeter." So I'll pay you 2 cents if you take my advice.
But it does make sense that the money would go to keeping the LGMs from letting the smoke out of the servers.
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Mmm, now you write it '2c', it makes me wonder if in fact it's two degrees centigrade of writing opinion that's being given.
Or perhaps it's been chinese-whispered over time from C2 (C squared).
If the other person (the author) brings the mass of the prose, and then you multiply it by the speed of cosmic understanding as expressed through you (your critique), you end up with the energy of the piece.
Just a theory...
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Mmm, now you write it '2c', it makes me wonder if in fact it's two degrees centigrade of writing opinion that's being giving.
Or perhaps it's been chinese-whispered over time from C2 (C squared).
If the other person (the author) brings the mass of the prose, and then you multiply it by the speed of cosmic understanding as expressed through you (your critique), you end up with the energy of the piece.
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