On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, JR van Rensburg wrote:
This saves even more aggravation than time. Prithee do not ask how I know.Probably because you took the trouble at some stage to actually read the reply/instructions listserver sends you when you signed up to the list ;)
Well, I meant aggravation with the asperity of the well-intentioned; and I think I learned of it from an older wiser colleague. But I admit I began life, back before the Carboniferous, as a mathematician, and certainly retain a predilection to thoroughness (not uninfluenced by Germanic philology) ...
-- Beartooth Staffwright, Double Retiree, Linux Duffer, Curmudgeon On Line, Historian of Tongues from Way Back
