Thanks Alan!
My brother in law Robert Maurer, Ric Johnson a friend, etc correct my
English every time I make a mistake. English is the hardest language to
grasp! I am still learning (Never too old to learn:-)
I may or may not remember the corrections,
Grandma Sam
At 10:49 PM 8/16/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Craig,
>
>More succinctly, for a timed event run over more than one day, the
>competitor with the lowest total elapsed time takes first place.
>
>Everyone on this list understood what Grandma Sam was saying.
>Well, almost everyone, apparently.
>
>Your taking issue with her use of language on a technical point
>was not really necessary.
>
>So what I wonder is: Are you an English Teacher? How about a
>computer programmer? More to the point, was your response an
>error in judgement, or are you having a bad (choose one) day, week,
>month, year, decade, life?
>
>Alan Sheidler
>Been to Nationals a bunch of times.
>(Reads to understand what people mean, which sometimes is
>slightly at odds with the chosen word arrangements.)
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