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Frank Cotolo
May 22, 2014 |
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There are many forecasters of doom in many areas where doom may strike. Late last year I
interviewed such a person, a man named Edward Fickle, who predicted that global financial collapse
will occur this year. Here is that interview.
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ME: How does one find signs of a devastating crunch in global economy?
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EDWARD FICKLE: I don't like the word crunch, it isn't loud enough.
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ME: Loud enough?
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EF: Yes. Collapse is a multi-sound word. You say it and you hear crumbling and squeeking and
scraping and you also hear crunching.
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ME: All right, I will use collapse intead.
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EF: Go ahead then.
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ME: How does one find signs of a devastating collapse in global economy?
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EF: If you are going to replace crunch with collapse you have to change the adjective. A collapse
is always devastating; devastation is built into the word collapse. So the question has what I call
a repetitive statement and that makes it sound like you are a bad journalist because you cannot put
together sentences that are correctly produced for the utmost impact.
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ME: Let me ask another question.
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EF: Have you thought the second question out thoroughly enough to convey understanding to anyone
who would answer?
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ME: A lot of people couldn't answer the second question because they are not hone in financial
matters.
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EF: They are not hone? Are you overcompensating because you so poorly put together the first
question so you feel obligated to make a statement using a verb ordinarilly used in a different
definitive form?
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ME: What's wrong with hone as a verb?
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EF: Nothing, except you are using it to impress me as opposed to making my contribution to the
interview the foremost object of our conversation.
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