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 Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:14 pm
My teacher gave me this extra credit:
I was given the sentence, 'Women without her name is nothing.' I need to change the punctuation so the meaning of the sentence changes. So far I have two solutions. I need one more.
Women: without her, man is nothing.
Women, without her man, is nothing.
I will love you forever, , if you help me.
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:28 pm
That sentence doesn't really make any sense to me.
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:33 pm
The sentence without punctuation or the other two?
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:37 pm
I've heard this before from my choir accompanist. (haha) He did it these ways:
Woman, without her, man is nothing.
Woman, without her man, is nothing.
Those are the only two ways, I think. That first way of yours could be considered a third way, though.
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:34 pm
s0prano42_x3 I've heard this before from my choir accompanist. (haha) He did it these ways: Woman, without her, man is nothing. Woman, without her man, is nothing. Those are the only two ways, I think. That first way of yours could be considered a third way, though. I already posted both of those.
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:39 pm
Should we really be doing your extra credit for you though?
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:35 pm
I heard of this before. It was supposed to be a joke on how punctuation could change a sentence all together while supporting one gender.
Women in the class supposedly wrote: Woman, without her, man is nothing.
And the men in the class wrote, as you can guess: Woman, without her man, is nothing.
As far as I know, these are the only two solutions. I never heard of a third answer. But good luck trying to find it!
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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:45 am
I've asked all my friends, they only see two ways. Maybe my english teacher made a mistake.
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:15 pm
I agree. I've only even seen those two and can't think of what else you could do to change the meaning. I think this was an example in Eats, Shoots and Leaves, too. Awesome book. cool
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:17 pm
Ksenia Sergeevina My teacher gave me this extra credit: I was given the sentence, 'Women without her name is nothing.' I need to change the punctuation so the meaning of the sentence changes. So far I have two solutions. I need one more. Women: without her, man is nothing. Women, without her man, is nothing. I will love you forever, , if you help me.You need to change the punctuation? You changed that, and a word in the sentence. "Women without her name is nothing." Then it turned into: "Women without her man is nothing." Which sentence is it?
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