Sonny wrote on May 13, 2008 8:21 PM:
" Perfect- I know you are trying to be meticulous about your grammar and punctuation, so if those weren't mistakes and you were just trying to dumb it down for me, I understand. "
Sonny wrote on May 13, 2008 8:03 PM:
" No, did I get that wrong too? "
PerfectStranger wrote on May 13, 2008 7:58 PM:
" Sonny, are you on drugs? "
Sonny wrote on May 13, 2008 7:30 PM:
" Perfect- In your 3:21 post I think you meant to say "if" not "is", and I think you meant to put a comma after the word "wrong" not a period. If I read what you write very carefully, figure out the mistakes and read it a few times, it is less confusing. "
PerfectStranger wrote on May 13, 2008 3:43 PM:
" I should have added this to my last comment: If the patient from Prairie du Chien had not needed to be flown to Gundersen, that would have meant the helicopter that crashed would not have been dispatched on that flight. So yes, ultimately this patient was also involved in the 'perfect storm' that led to the helicopter crash. I am personally intrigued by the way our lives (and our deaths) are so often affected by the lives (and deaths) of others. "
PerfectStranger wrote on May 13, 2008 3:35 PM:
" Murphy, It sure is unfortunate that the patient from Prairie du Chien has also now died. The helicopter that crashed after transporting this person to Gundersen was dispatched on this flight only because Gundersen's helicopter was already in service for the car accident in Arcadia. That's how the two crashes are connected. In simplified terms, if the car accident in Arcadia had not happened, the helicopter that crashed likely would not have been dispatched to Prairie du Chien. If the cause was purely mechanical, the helicopter might have crashed on the next flight it made, but more than likely several factors contributed to the crash as it did happen outside of La Crosse. Think of it as being like the Butterfly Effect. "
PerfectStranger wrote on May 13, 2008 3:21 PM:
" Thank you, pewter, for pointing out my misuse of ellipses. It is an odd habit I picked up years ago, and I originally used it only when it was best to leave something unwritten. It crept into my daily writing and became a commonly used 'end' to a sentence. I suppose I usually do feel that I'm leaving something unwritten, but is the casual use of it that is wrong. I'll try not to do that any more. "
murphy wrote on May 13, 2008 12:37 PM:
" Now I'm confused: The news update says that the patient the helicopter took to Gundersen has died. She was transferred to LaCrosse from Prairie Du Chien after a stroke. And that relates to the car crash how? "
pewter wrote on May 13, 2008 11:41 AM:
" Perfect Stranger, as a grammar and punctation expert I assume you are intentionally ending your sentences with ellipses (...) to mean that there is a lot more to your thought that you are not including in the text. If that is the case you should end the sentence with the three dots plus the normal period that ends the sentence. That is all I have to say ... for now. "
J.D. wrote on May 13, 2008 11:24 AM:
" Perfect ~ I totally understood what you meant yesterday...and today. Don't get frustrated, some people are just slower than others.... "
PerfectStranger wrote on May 13, 2008 9:39 AM:
" Sonny, when I wrote "...this one car crash..." yesterday, I didn't mean 'a one-car crash' as in a single vehicle, I meant that this one particular accident led ultimately to five deaths, including the three people in the helicopter. That's why I correctly use the hyphen to indicate 'one-car crash' as opposed to 'one car crash', which means something different. If I have to dumb-down my writing so that people aren't confused by proper grammar and punctuation, I'll be very disappointed... "
PerfectStranger wrote on May 13, 2008 9:27 AM:
" Correction: "Tell me where it says, 'two-car accident' in the article, Sonny." "
PerfectStranger wrote on May 13, 2008 9:26 AM:
" Sonny, I wasn't confused about anything regarding this collision. I was simply waiting for a more detailed article than was provided over the weekend. I didn't have a problem with the number of cars involved or with the number of people involved. Now, how can anyone think this was a two-car accident if a third car was involved? That would make it a three-car accident. Period. Tell me where it say "two-car accident", Sonny.
I think you are still confused by my comment regarding the helicopter crash and how it was related to this crash. Did you figure that one out yet, Sonny? Let me know if you still don't get it... "
Sonny wrote on May 13, 2008 8:42 AM:
" Perfect-Here you go, it was a "two car" accident that killed these two people, with a third vehicle hitting one or both of the original two. "
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