Ron's gonna need to sit down the rest of the week, having spent so much time standing corrected :)
glc -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stewart Kidd Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 2:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Electrical Rooms-Dedicated Equipment Space, Sprinklers and IBC Exemptions Tut, tut, Ron ! Boswell has two 'll's' ! (Dr Johnson wuld not mind - his spelin wos atroshious) Stewart (MA and MSc) On 31 Jan 2011, at 00:28, Ron Greenman wrote: > John, > > Not at all. I believe I asked for your further input regarding my comments. > To stand corrected is to admit learning in the face of preconceived notions. > The learning is good for us unwashed, the validation let's you know that your > efforts are appreciated, and the suggested lesson for the egotists is pretty > clear, though it may escape them due to their nature. If any apologies are > required it's from the developers of this form of communication wherein there > is no place for even inflection. Were that we were all Voltaire, Twain, or > Faulkner and there'd be no misunderstandings of this kind. But, alas, the art > of letter writing is long dead. Modern Boswels compiling the emails of even > famous scientists could easily title the work "The Collected Grocery Lists of > Dr. X." When it cost a man a week's pay to send a letter because it > absolutely, positively had to get there in a couple of months folks were a > little more erudite. I believe I'm near the last graduating class where penma nship, spelling, punctuation, and an adherence to grammar were necessary for the educated man. The term for an educated person used to be knowledge of Arts, Letters and the Sciences. > > Ron Greenman > ...On the phone _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
