OT: what's with the 'i'?

doug dmcgarrett at optonline.net
Sat Feb 2 01:19:29 UTC 2013


On 02/01/2013 07:52 PM, Craig White wrote:

/snip/

> Reminds me of a book that I bought that looked interesting... "Eats 
> Shoots & Leaves by Lynn Truss." It was about the need for things like 
> punctuation to clarify the intent of something. In the end, the author 
> includes a number of self adhesive commas, apostrophes, periods, 
> semi-colons and colons so one can fix the world's signage guerrilla 
> style. Yes, it's that absurd. It doesn't matter. 
I edit a small newsletter with about 1000 subscribers, and we get input 
from a variety of sources.
For some of them, I have promised to ship a barrel of commas, to be used 
liberally!

--doug

-- 
Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley



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