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Post by MoonRiver on Apr 5, 2008 1:35:46 GMT
A WOMAN WITHOUT HER MAN IS NOTHING Would you please punctuate the above sentence.
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Post by ogre on Apr 5, 2008 1:40:13 GMT
A WOMAN WITHOUT HER MAN IS NOTHING!
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Post by ogre on Apr 5, 2008 1:43:28 GMT
Or as the famous Imperial Woman Genewal Gaius Maximus Womulus said, talking about his faithful Germanic ally
" A Woman Without Herman Is Nothing"
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Post by Amaris on Apr 5, 2008 2:04:59 GMT
A WOMAN WITHOUT HER MAN IS NOTHING Would you please punctuate the above sentence. Can I just ask ... is it relevant that you typed it in capital letters? As you know I am easily confused
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aelwyn
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Post by aelwyn on Apr 5, 2008 2:24:42 GMT
Ah, I saw this.
The CORRECT one is:
A woman: without her, man is nothing.
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Post by bobdezon on Apr 5, 2008 2:45:51 GMT
It is not the correct one. Punctuation can be used several ways on this statement.
A woman, without her, man is nothing.
A woman, without her man, is nothing.
Either is correct, sexual bias plays a large part in how you interpret the data.
Woman would use the former, and men the latter. Both sexes overstating their obvious importance.
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Post by aelwyn on Apr 5, 2008 3:00:14 GMT
It is not the correct one. Punctuation can be used several ways on this statement. A woman, without her, man is nothing. A woman, without her man, is nothing. Either is correct, sexual bias plays a large part in how you interpret the data. Woman would use the former, and men the latter. Both sexes overstating their obvious importance. 'Twas a joke. This comes from this email that's being passed around: An English professor wrote the words: "A woman without her man is nothing" on the board 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.
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Post by fattulip on Apr 5, 2008 11:27:24 GMT
Vanessa Feltz was on about this on BBC London, as I was on my way to work yesterday.
Someone phoned in and gave a similar one along the lines of, "THE TEACHER SAID THE BOY IS NO GOOD."
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Post by steje73 on Apr 5, 2008 11:31:52 GMT
Or;
The medium said Meercat is bogus.
There's one with only one correct way to punctuate.
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Post by MoonRiver on Apr 5, 2008 19:27:01 GMT
A WOMAN WITHOUT HER MAN IS NOTHING Would you please punctuate the above sentence. Can I just ask ... is it relevant that you typed it in capital letters? As you know I am easily confused Sorry, No! just my caps lock was on.
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Post by MoonRiver on Apr 5, 2008 19:28:56 GMT
I was curious and as Bob pointed out it very much depends on your gender as to how you would punctuate.
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Post by hellyp on Apr 5, 2008 23:24:56 GMT
It is not the correct one. Punctuation can be used several ways on this statement. A woman, without her, man is nothing. A woman, without her man, is nothing. Either is correct, sexual bias plays a large part in how you interpret the data. Woman would use the former, and men the latter. Both sexes overstating their obvious importance. Actually your first one is incorrect.
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Post by Amaris on Apr 5, 2008 23:33:41 GMT
Can I just ask ... is it relevant that you typed it in capital letters? As you know I am easily confused Sorry, No! just my caps lock was on.
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Post by Amaris on Apr 5, 2008 23:36:16 GMT
It is not the correct one. Punctuation can be used several ways on this statement. A woman, without her, man is nothing. A woman, without her man, is nothing. Either is correct, sexual bias plays a large part in how you interpret the data. Woman would use the former, and men the latter. Both sexes overstating their obvious importance. Actually your first one is incorrect. Would it have more meaning if the first one started with just Woman instead of A woman? Because in the first sentence the woman is singular but man looks like it stands for all men
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Post by hellyp on Apr 5, 2008 23:45:00 GMT
It's the first comma that's the problem. But yes, it could start 'Woman' instead of 'A woman'. Aelwyn was correct with 'A woman: without her, man is nothing'. I think 'A woman - without her, man is nothing' would also be OK. And of course 'A woman, without her man, is nothing'. In the third one, the commas either side of 'without her man' serve to kind of segregate the 'without her man' part from the rest. With commas which are used in this way, the bits on either side of them should make sense, eg. 'A woman....is nothing. The bit in the middle is there to qualify that statement. It's meant to provide the full meaning of the statement. If you look at it like this, 'A woman, without her, man is nothing' makes no sense because without 'without her' it would read 'A woman man is nothing'. [/NERD]
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Post by bobdezon on Apr 5, 2008 23:57:41 GMT
Actually your first one is incorrect. I concur, the first , should actually be a ;
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Post by johndouglas on Apr 8, 2008 12:38:17 GMT
So ''A wo? man with outher man is not hing!" is not a go-er then?
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Post by hellyp on Apr 8, 2008 15:43:24 GMT
Oh I don't know. I quite like it.
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