"A woman without her man is nothing."
Huh? Not exactly!
This example of what a little colon and comma can do has made the rounds on the internet for a while now. Never mind, it hasn't seen the light of day here, so -
As the story goes, a professor told his class to correctly punctuate the sentence.
The males in the classroom wrote:With just a simple change in punctuation, the entire meaning of the sentence was changed in an instant.
“A woman, without her man, is nothing.”
The women in the class wrote:
“A woman: without her, man is nothing.”
6 comments:
Unless either of them is gay, which would leave both of them diminished and wasting their time no matter how many colons or commas are used.
A Casual Reader ~ Just so! I wonder what a gay student, of either gender would have written? Or the couple you envisaged, who were mis-matched. Probably something along the lines of: "Take your flippin' commas and colons and stick 'em where the sun don't shine!" ;-)
Ah. Punctuation. Where would we be without it? In a message on a cell phone probably.
anyjazz ~ Exactly! Or tweeting in Twitterland.
I've always preferred this version:
A woman without; her man is nothing.
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WWW
Wisewebwoman ~ That's a subtle one, WWW - sounds a tad Shakespearean. :)
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