The comma cop comes out for a few words...
A couple of years ago Dan asked if I'd help proofread the rule book. I did -- and found lots of commas that shouldn't have been there, among other things. But I wasn't able to go through and change things where the context didn't help me. I would have (anybody trying the task) would have had to have help from someone that knows the intent of each statement, each rule. Then I could have tried to word that intent in clear(er) language. But that is an undertaking of gargantuan proportions and would take literally hundreds of hours of close collaboration. In the meantime -- the book does evolve constantly, becoming clearer and easier to understand -- one phrase, one word, one rule at a time.
Maybe I should donate a zillion bucks to the SCTA so that the rulebook committee" could all take a year off, with generous compensation, and carefully go through and find every durned hiccup and make it clear. That's one way that might work -- but I betcha there'd still be some that can't understand - or don't try to understand -- a rule, here and there, now and then.
C. Cop now goes back to his dessert, and this thread can go back to Vintage OHV motors.
