Punctuation is Powerful

Mar 11, 2008 15:17


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.

A bunch of thanks to this blogger, and ( Read more... )

philosophy, gender, english

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purerainbow March 11 2008, 16:34:41 UTC
interesting.

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