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*sniff*
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Punctuation Is Important, As Is Shameless Self-Promotion
While driving around scenic Tucson today, I spotted a sign that made me guffaw. Normally I try not to guffaw while driving, but we were stopped at a light so it was OK. (Deb hadn't seen the sign, so she just thought I had finally snapped.) The sign, crafted from fine stone-ground cardboard, was tacked to a telephone pole. It read: "Shit-Zu Puppy's For Sale". I gave them credit for the hyphen, as I thought that the word required one. (Turns out it doesn't.) Not in that part of the word, of course, but I thought it was there. The woefully inappropriate apostrophe s would normally have me enraged, but the first part of the sign really took the sting out of it. There's a word of advice to those of you who are a tad shaky on some of the more fundamental rules of grammar: make the first mistake really funny, and the others will be glossed over by your reader.
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2 comments:
I'm with you on the punctuation thing! That sign made me cringe. Someone should really tell them that the plural of "puppy" is "puppies". No apostrophe required. Have you read Eats , Shoots & Leaves?? I think you'd enjoy it.
Dzeni - I've had that book for a while now, and yes, I did enjoy it thoroughly. If you want to read a book that will make you laugh and cringe at the same time at the stupidity of college/university students, check out Non Campus Mentis. Funny, yet deeply disturbing at the same time.
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