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>>A street sign in a neighborhood I used to live in:
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>>DEAF CHILDREN
>>DRIVE CAREFULLY
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>POLICE STOP.
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>This is an example where ambiguity is avoided by punctuation. A noun in the vocative has a comma:
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>"Friends, come in for your supper" vs "Friends come in for your supper"
I'm always forgetting my long stick when I drive through the neighborhoods with the 'Blind Peds' signs.
"You don't manage people. You manage things - people you lead" Adm. Grace Hopper
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