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Why Punctuation Matters

Started by Evie, June 03, 2015, 02:48:12 PM

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Evie

June 03, 2015, 02:48:12 PM
Same words, different punctuation. Which letter do you think John would rather receive? ;D



(For what it's worth, I would remove the extraneous comma after "people" in that second version.  ;) )
"In necessariis unitas, in non-necessariis libertas, in utrisque caritas."

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Jerusha

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June 03, 2015, 03:30:11 PM
Might depend on what John thinks of Gloria.   ;)
From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggity beasties and things that go bump in the night...good Lord deliver us!

 -- Old English Litany

Aerlys

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June 03, 2015, 07:25:14 PM
LOL! I've seen that one before.
"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."

Hilaire Belloc

Elkhound

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June 04, 2015, 07:26:43 AM
Then there is that famous:

WOMAN WITHOUT HER MAN IS NOTHING

"Woman: Without her, man is nothing."

"Woman, without her man, is nothing."
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