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Kingofalldems

(38,451 posts) Sun May 17, 2015, 08:42 PM May 2015

Commas save lives.

Let's eat grandma.

Let's eat, grandma.

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Commas save lives. (Original Post) Kingofalldems May 2015 OP

Or the comma that saved a Russian officer from the wrath of Tsar Alexander II: Aristus May 2015 #1

:) napkinz May 2015 #2

Just finished "Eats, Shoots and Leaves." hifiguy May 2015 #3

Aristus

(66,316 posts)

1. Or the comma that saved a Russian officer from the wrath of Tsar Alexander II:

Reply to Kingofalldems (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2015, 09:02 PM

May 2015

The Tsarina changed the Tsar's reply to a pardon request in this fashion:

From - "Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia."

To - "Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia."

napkinz

(17,199 posts)

2. :)

Reply to Kingofalldems (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2015, 02:07 PM

May 2015

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

3. Just finished "Eats, Shoots and Leaves."

Reply to Kingofalldems (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2015, 03:17 PM

May 2015

Indeed they do, and that has to be the funniest book ever written about punctuation.

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