If there’s one organization that I want to establish in the Philippines, it’s the “Apostrophe Protection Society”, or the “Preservation of the Semi-colon”, or the “Hey, Use a Comma When Not Tweeting”. It’s punctuation that I find worth fighting for -- not animal rights, environment protection, or use-the-fast-lane-only-for-overtaking. Multitudes have joined those causes. Nobody seems to fight for the lowly comma.
Like Lynne Truss, the author of the world’s most significant book in the last century, “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” (I die a little when I hear a friend saying “huh?”), I was appalled by Warner Bros.’ omission of the apostrophe in Two Weeks Notice. Now, here comes Crazy, Stupid, Love. News reports have all those commas. While it’s commendable that film’s producers have not forgotten to comma, it’s disturbing that there’s one comma too many.
The poster doesn’t help either. Where is it?
Do I hear get a life drop it face it dude da web has subverted the rules of grammar theres more to life than punctuation your so old school
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