PUNCTUATION...

[_tomaszek]

Hi :o)

An English professor wrote the words, "a woman without her man is nothing" on
the blackboard and directed the students to punctuate it correctly.
The men wrote: "A woman, without her man, is nothing."
The women wrote: "A woman: without her, man is nothing."
Punctuation is everything!

Any comments?
Does punctuation in English is really so important?
rgds

[Gość: chickenShorts]

_tomaszek napisał:

> Hi :o)
>
> An English professor wrote the words, "a woman without her man is nothing" on
> the blackboard and directed the students to punctuate it correctly.
> The men wrote: "A woman, without her man, is nothing."
> The women wrote: "A woman: without her, man is nothing."
> Punctuation is everything!
>
> Any comments?<
> Does punctuation in English is really so important?<

Is really so important Das Punctuation? Quite funny, BTW.

[Gość: krecha]

funny, but neither version has correct puctuation,
and the second (women's) version lacks an article

[Gość: erwas]

Gość portalu: krecha napisał(a):

> funny, but neither version has correct puctuation,
> and the second (women's) version lacks an article

so let's just all mosey on along to the next, more interesting thread.

[Gość: awalk]

Well, it seeems it wasn't an English professor but a student, who had been
badly educated, wrote the sentences. BTW the second sentence needs an
exclamation mark.

[Gość: chickenShorts]

Gość portalu: awalk napisał(a):

> Well, it seeems it wasn't an English professor but a student, who had been
> badly educated, wrote the sentences. BTW the second sentence needs an
> exclamation mark.

'A teacher is a failed student', goes a well known saying.