Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Sepllnig mttaers not to unredsadntnig, but punctuation does.

Turn off your spell checker and get the first and last letters right and you are all set.

I pledge to be more tolerant of misspelled words - just as long as all the letters are present and the first and last letters are correct.

Now, if only the same also applied to punctuation.

The sentence - A woman without her man is nothing. - might offend some people when punctuated as follows:

A woman, without her man, is nothing.

Then again it might well offend others with this punctuation:

A women: without her, man is nothing.

Does anybody have other favorite 'eats shoots and leaves' type punctuation examples?

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