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  1. February 19th, 2016, 03:08 #26
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Clayton View Post
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    Please!

    Read "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss. Best book ever on punctuation, grammar and language, by a self styled grammar commando.
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    You can do a lot by moving just one comma. A Czarina in Russia many years ago saved her lover from the Czar's revenge by moving one comma in the Czar's instructions re: the interloper.

    The Czar had written, "Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia."

    The Czarina just changed it to read, "Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia." And the rascal walked.
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    SSI01,

    Yeah, there is another joke like that.

    "Let's eat Grandma."

    "Let's eat, Grandma."

    Punctuation saves lives!
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    We do not speak the King's English here, we speak American English.

    Believe me, I know how to speak good English right.

    Bob
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Clayton View Post
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    I hadn't heard this before. Pronunciation is wildly inconsistent in every human language, not just English.
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    There are always the perennial favorites of grammar taskmasters: you're and your - and there, their, they're.

    For some reason those usually activate my cringe reflex when misused. We all make mistakes, but it seems some folks never bothered to learn the difference.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wayland View Post
    Read "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss. Best book ever on punctuation, grammar and language, by a self styled grammar commando.
    Which is the motto of all Wombats with one small addition......... 'Eats, Roots, Shoots and Leaves', understandable to most Aussies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mgchrist5 View Post
    There are always the perennial favorites of grammar taskmasters: you're and your - and there, their, they're.

    For some reason those usually activate my cringe reflex when misused. We all make mistakes, but it seems some folks never bothered to learn the difference.
    Mgchrist5,

    What about its and it's?
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    Quote Originally Posted by SSI01 View Post
    You can do a lot by moving just one comma. A Czarina in Russia many years ago saved her lover from the Czar's revenge by moving one comma in the Czar's instructions re: the interloper.

    The Czar had written, "Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia."

    The Czarina just changed it to read, "Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia." And the rascal walked.

    Could be why legal documents have no punctuation?

    BTW, who said 'Two nations separated by a common language'?

    Keith
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dev One View Post
    Could be why legal documents have no punctuation?

    BTW, who said 'Two nations separated by a common language'?

    Keith
    Sir Winston Churchill, for one.
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    "Two nations separated by a common language"?

    Shaw.
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    Quote Originally Posted by b52bob View Post
    We do not speak the King's English here, we speak American English.

    Believe me, I know how to speak good English right.

    Bob
    Erm....we haven't spoken the King's English since 1952. Does it take that long for news to reach the US?
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  15. February 27th, 2016, 02:31 #40
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    "Two nations separated by a common language."

    Yes indeed, George Bernard Shaw.

    "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" sounds like something from "The Godfather."
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