Author Topic: More sex please we’re British (Read 16306 times)

chocolate chick · « **Reply #75 on:** January 18, 2005, 09:33:19 am »

Going back to the dash thing.... proper punctuation can be a hard thing to understand.

oldspice · « **Reply #76 on:** January 18, 2005, 04:48:17 pm »

Punctuation is supposed to make things easier to understand. Spoken language has intonation and inflection - written language has punctuation. Punctuation performs like intonation - it tells you where the pauses are and what the emphasis is.

goldencup · « **Reply #77 on:** January 18, 2005, 07:15:38 pm »

I love that quote from "Eats shoots and leaves" about an American performance of a Shakespeare play (can't remember which one). The line was supposed to be, "Go! Get him surgeons!" and what they said was "Go get him surgeons". (It needs to be said in an American accent to be funny. Well I thought it was funny anyway.

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« **Reply #78 on:** January 18, 2005, 09:23:36 pm »

oldspice · « **Reply #79 on:** January 19, 2005, 07:04:39 am »

Someone has written a spoof book called Eats, sh*ts and Leaves. If you know why the original book is called Eats Shoots and Leaves the spoof titlle is even funnier.

« **Reply #80 on:** January 19, 2005, 08:29:28 am »

i can't see why it's funnier. Shoots has two meanings, sh*ts doesn't. Can you explain, am I being thick?

loulou · « **Reply #81 on:** January 19, 2005, 04:14:01 pm »

As usual yes.

« **Reply #82 on:** January 19, 2005, 04:15:59 pm »

aveit101 · « **Reply #83 on:** January 20, 2005, 11:18:49 am »

Quote from: bounty hunter

A dash? How incredibly misleading. It's a good job you don't work for NASSA. How stupid can you get!

ALL I DID WAS PUT AN EXTRA LINE THERE

U GET GET ALOT STUPEDER THAN THAT

« **Reply #84 on:** January 20, 2005, 01:12:02 pm »

smurfboy · « **Reply #85 on:** January 20, 2005, 01:59:02 pm »

It's a good job people who do work for NASA know it only has one 's' in it!

« **Reply #86 on:** January 20, 2005, 02:17:59 pm »

loulou · « **Reply #87 on:** January 20, 2005, 10:28:18 pm »

bounty your spelling is getting worse.haha.

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