The importance of punctuation

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The importance of punctuation
Topic Started: Aug 26 2008, 05:45 PM (73 Views)
Yash	Aug 26 2008, 05:45 PM Post #1
Novice Posts: 14 Group: Members Member #2,870 Joined: August 3, 2008	After today's example of "Woman without her man is nothing", I thought we'd discuss some real incidents where punctuation made/makes/would make a big difference. Here's one that cost the US Government $2 million. A clerk one mistook a hyphen for a comma and wrote "All foreign fruit, plants are free from duty." This meant that not only fruit-bearing plants (as was originally intended), but also all other plants as well as all fruit was duty-free.
	The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. -- Douglas Adams


salil_ghate	Oct 23 2008, 12:37 AM Post #2
Regular user Posts: 52 Group: Members Member #2,698 Joined: July 20, 2008	There is a funny book written on the importance of punctuation. It's called 'Eats, shoots and leaves'. (the title describes the confusion caused by mis-punctuating (if that's a word) the dietary habits of a Panda...) Edited by salil_ghate, Oct 23 2008, 12:41 AM.
	...And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who couldn't hear the music... -Neitzsche


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