BEER Ch. 4 The Red Herring

[Fiona Shnapple]

Yes. My error, and I stand corrected, was to assume that the vast majority
would get it w/o looking it up.  Once I realized that "financial
illiteracy" may be the cause, I posted the investopedia link.

On Wednesday, October 23, 2013, John Bailey wrote:

> Surely the vast, vast majority of readers are going to be more
> acquainted with red herring in the literary sense rather than the IPO
> thing. That's how it might refer to something other than that, in an
> extra-diegetic sense. And the confusion that follows (how is this a
> red herring) might lead to looking up the term, working out its
> diegetic meaning, and then realising that that little definitional
> excursion away from the reading was itself a red herring.
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > When it's a " 'red herring' ".
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Oct 23, 2013, at 6:12 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 10/23/13, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysemy
> >>
> >> https://www.google.com/#q=%22red+herring%22&safe=off
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