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Post by Pauline on Oct 27, 2007 15:13:42 GMT
an English teacher, teaching about punctuation, set the following task for his pupils. Punctuate the following sentence: a woman without her man is nothing all the males in the group answered: a woman, without her man, is nothing all the females answered: a woman: without her, man is nothing  |
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Post by lunnie on Nov 3, 2007 16:33:56 GMT
Brilliant Pauline and so so true
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Post by jayjay on Nov 4, 2007 11:04:48 GMT
Fascinating. I love language - have you ever heard of a book called the Joy of Lex? I love reading it!
That's LEX, guys...!
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Post by eugene on Nov 4, 2007 14:18:26 GMT
Jayjay
You might like a book on punctuation called "Eats shoots and leaves"
It stems from a joke -
A Panda walks into a resturant and orders a meal, when he is given the bill he pulls out a gun and shoots the manager and walks out of the restaurant, when he is arrested he shows the police a dictionary and when they look up 'Panda' the entry says- Panda, eats shoots and leaves.
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Post by jayjay on Nov 4, 2007 20:31:22 GMT
LoL!!! That's so funny. Will have to look out for that book!  |
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