Helpful Posts: Certainly according to one interpretation of this business sign.
I have always been a supporter of using correct grammar and punctuation, but I had never realized the health benefits of doing so!
Curiously I haven't seen any institutions supporting semi-colons, commas, exclamation or question marks...
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16th April 2019, 04:01 AM #1
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It's Important to Take Care of Punctuation
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16th April 2019, 08:36 AM #2
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Nice one.
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16th April 2019, 04:19 PM #3Moderator
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I assume they perform colonoscopies there to find errant punctuation?
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16th April 2019, 09:05 PM #4
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Hi Manfred - I admire your penetrating insight!
Originally Posted by Manfred M
Sometimes it's spelling that's the issue: be it consonants or bowels...
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16th April 2019, 09:09 PM #5
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I hope they do a better job with their colonoscopies than they do with their punctuation.
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17th April 2019, 12:27 AM #6
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Whaaaaaat!! Originally Posted by Tronhard
Hi Manfred - I admire your penetrating insight!
Sometimes it's spelling that's the issue: be it consonants or bowels...
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17th April 2019, 02:38 AM #7
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It's a play on words Ole! Originally Posted by mugge
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17th April 2019, 05:06 AM #8
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Too late, the hyphen died long ago ... Originally Posted by Tronhard
Certainly according to one interpretation of this business sign.
I have always been a supporter of using correct grammar and punctuation, but I had never realized the health benefits of doing so!
Curiously I haven't seen any institutions supporting semi-colons, commas, exclamation or question marks...
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana" ...
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17th April 2019, 02:15 PM #9
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The period has taken the lion's share of attention.
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17th April 2019, 04:44 PM #10
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Did you capture the shot while moving past or, before shooting, did you come to a full-stop?
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17th April 2019, 07:57 PM #11
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There is a book titled "the panda eats shoots and leaves".
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17th April 2019, 09:34 PM #12
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In NZ (some time ago) the standard Kiwi Male was described as one who eats, roots and leaves...
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17th April 2019, 11:35 PM #13
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Excellent. I have the original book. In there, it says "shoots" but that makes little difference ... Originally Posted by Tronhard
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17th April 2019, 11:52 PM #14
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The quote I had was actually from the magazine "the NZ Woman's Weekly", which (I think) parodied the book about which you are totally correct. Ironically the magazine itself was referred to in the book "Half-Gallon, Quarter-Acre, Pavlova Paradise" as sex, the NZ woman's weekly! Originally Posted by xpatUSA
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18th April 2019, 12:27 AM #15
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Before I retired from our city's tertiary care genl hospital, I knew a physician there who chose this specialty as his career. When I asked him one day why that particular branch of medicine, he said "Because business was always looking up!"
Ka-dunk!!!
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18th April 2019, 03:50 PM #16
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The book, by Lynne Truss, is actually called "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" with a sub-title of "The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". The quote above gives the corrected version. Originally Posted by dem
There is a book titled "the panda eats shoots and leaves".
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18th April 2019, 07:11 PM #17
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Aha! Vive la Différence ... Originally Posted by Tronhard
The quote I had was actually from the magazine "the NZ Woman's Weekly", which (I think) parodied the book about which you are totally correct. Ironically the magazine itself was referred to in the book "Half-Gallon, Quarter-Acre, Pavlova Paradise" as sex, the NZ woman's weekly!
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