On the import of punctuation - 03/08/06 08:46 PM
The following letter to the editor appeared in this morning's Telegraph:
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SIR -- as a schoolboy, when learning of the importance of precise
punctuation, I was shown the following two statements:
"Woman without her man is useless."
"Woman! Without her, man is useless!"
As a happily married man, my wife assures me that the second statement
has the ring of truth.
Thomas Wingate,
London W2
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The second curiousity about this letter is that the fellow's wife is, apparently, a happily married man.