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ashling

(25,771 posts) Sun Dec 29, 2013, 12:06 AM Dec 2013

punctuation saves lives

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punctuation saves lives (Original Post) ashling Dec 2013 OP

Good grief!!!! ailsagirl Dec 2013 #1

What makes you think it's a mistake? pinboy3niner Dec 2013 #2

Maybe a missed steak ashling Dec 2013 #4

Or this old story: Aristus Dec 2013 #3

Good one. 840high Dec 2013 #7

Num! Family stew! nt valerief Dec 2013 #5

Is that fails or tails magazine ? /nt jakeXT Dec 2013 #6

ailsagirl

(22,897 posts)

1. Good grief!!!!

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Sun Dec 29, 2013, 12:09 AM

Dec 2013

I've always been a proponent of proper punctuation!!!!

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

2. What makes you think it's a mistake?

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Sun Dec 29, 2013, 12:34 AM

Dec 2013

ashling

(25,771 posts)

4. Maybe a missed steak

Reply to pinboy3niner (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 29, 2013, 01:39 AM

Dec 2013

Aristus

(66,388 posts)

3. Or this old story:

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Sun Dec 29, 2013, 01:23 AM

Dec 2013

Tsar Alexander III sentenced an innocent man to exile in Siberia; essentially a death sentence.

His wife, the Tsaritsa, discovered the truth of the man's innocence, and petitioned her husband to pardon the man.

The Tsar sent her a curt note: "Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia."

The Tsaritsa moved the comma so that the note now read: "Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia".

She showed the note, in the Tsar's handwriting and bearing his offical seal, to the judge of the case. The judge set the man free.