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Electric Monk

Electric Monk's Journal

July 3, 2014

Improper use of punctuation can drastically alter meaning.

eg. adding a comma where it doesn't belong

or leaving commas out

same with periods

and it works with quotation marks, too, as has already been discussed up-thread.

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About Electric Monk

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. http://theelectricmonk.com/ElectricMonk.html (not my website, just an explanation)