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More Proof Democracy Won't Work
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31/03/2006 04:22:03
 
 
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30/03/2006 13:24:45
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>>>>Ah, you've started it then! Some good'n's there :-)
>>>>
>>>>Incidentally, the British artist, Tracy Emin (infamous for her unmade bed exhibit) has a works of words in neon lights:
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>>>>"Is anal sex legal? ... Is legal sex anal?" - Think about it...
>>>
>>>I'm revisiting an app intended for text management (everything in memo fields, hierarchically organized into books-chapters-sections-subsections-sub**2sections etc) and while testing it I often write a paragraph or two just to, well, test it. And you can imagine what pearls of wisdom I later discover in these...
>>>
>>>"Houston, Houston, why are you read "howston" when you're a street, and "hewston" when you're a city?"
>>>
>>>"Key is often just a word. Often, word is a key. A just word is key, often. An often word is a just key. A word key is often just. A key word just often is."
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>>Just think of all the different connotations of one simple question, just by changing the stressed word. e.g.
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>>"WHAT does all this mean?", "What DOES all this mean", "What does ALL this mean" ... etc.
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>Reminds me of a Sally Forth comic on the power of the simple comma.
>
>Change "A woman without her man is helpless" to "A woman, without her man is helpless"

I don't see that - a bad example. To me the 2nd sentence hardly makes sense.

The world-famous book from last year "Eats, shoots and leaves", by Lynn Truss - well she's my punctuation hero. You might know I'm a bit of a stickler for English, and, when I read her book, I wanted her to have my babies! :-)

http://eatsshootsandleaves.com/


The title concerns a description of a panda, with misplace commas.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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