View Full Version : It's all in the Grammar
spmcc
31-03-2010, 02:15 PM
Let's eat grandpa, let's eat, grandpa. Remember commas save lives.:)
greyfox
31-03-2010, 03:34 PM
Just like the famous phrase 'Eats shoots and leaves'.
Put the comma(s) where you want to produce different meanings!
Or my favourite?...
After a school inspection, the inspector writes on the board
"The inspector says the teacher is an idiot."
To which the teacher responds with two commas
"The inspector, says the teacher, is an idiot."
See any internet forum for any number of examples of how people don't save lives!! There used to be a saying that if you gave a million monkeys a typewriter each, and enough time, they would write the complete works of Shakespeare. The internet is here to prove that totally wrong!!
Dez82
03-04-2010, 12:15 AM
When I was last in the 'states I had a T shirt printed that read in bold red letters "Eat, Shit and Die"
and underneath in small print "We've all got to do it"
I got several yanks all worked up, called my T shirt offensive, even the guy in the shop refused to print it until I explained, "You don't understand punctuation or humour!".."Oh and there's more than one a U in Humour because you yanks can't spell either!"
I've still got the shirt, love winding yanks up on sunny days by just walking through Stratford high street in tourist season. Priceless.
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