Guest guest Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 An English professor wrote the words: **A woman without her man is nothing ** on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it Correctly. All of the males in the class wrote: **A woman, without her man, is nothing.** All the females in the class wrote: **A woman: without her, man is nothing.** Punctuation is powerful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 I love this... I was as at a training session and learned this. Our lesson was email communications and how by not using punctuation or the correct punctuation can change the meaning of a simple sentence. I was asked to come in front of the group of nearly 300 and was handed an index card with " A woman without her man is nothing " written on it. It probably wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't mainly a men dominated group. I think I turned 50 shades of red and then handed the paper back and said that " I refused to answer this one " .... The facilitator asked me to come back up and to correct the sentence... I was so thrown that it took me a few minutes... he then read the card out loud... the group laughed.. We had a few suggestions before I got it 100% correct. " A woman: without her, man is nothing. " My punctuation isn't 100% by far, but I'm working on it everyday.. , bestsurprise2002 wrote: > > > > An English professor wrote the words: > > **A woman without her man is nothing ** > > on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it Correctly. > > All of the males in the class wrote: > > **A woman, without her man, is nothing.** > > All the females in the class wrote: > > **A woman: without her, man is nothing.** > > Punctuation is powerful > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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