Well, from looking at the article it looks like the discreet word has been had already ("we discussed your turning three of my long sentences into six short one

Well, from looking at the article it looks like the discreet word has been had already ("we discussed your turning three of my long sentences into six short ones in a single piece"), and this is in fact the getting-it-in-the-neck part (he does acknowledge that there is a chance that it was not the same guy as before editing with his review, but the implication is that this chance is very slight)