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Old 02-28-2008, 09:54 PM
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Add a degree in English and an anal-retentive nature to a perfectly good sensibility regarding spelling and grammar, and you have me.

I see errors everywhere I look. Even the difference between the use of "wrong" and the use of "wrongly". Did you know that American grammarians generally place end stop punctuation inside quotation marks, when it comes at the end of a quotation? Canadians do and don't, depending on the situation!

Ahhh, the confusion.

Has anyone read "Eats, Shoots & Leaves"? Brilliant. A brief explanation of the book:

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.

“Why?” asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

“Well, I’m a panda,” he says at the door. “Look it up.”

The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. “Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.”
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