A Koala walks into an expensive vegatarian restaurant and orders a meal. After the waiter clears the plates, the Koala hauls a .25 cal beretta out of it's pouch, fires a round into the ceiling and walks out. The manager chases the koala down and, quite reasonably under the circumstances asks, "WTF?"
The koala takes out a bestiary and points to the sentence. "Koala: eats, shoots and leaves."
2007-09-05 01:32:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
you write English better than most native speakers, DFA.
2007-09-05 02:32:09 · update #1
Nah, too well known. It's even the title of a very popular book.
I prefer the importance of the comma in the sentence:
"Let's eat, Grandma!"
2007-09-05 01:38:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is madness flown from a pole so that those on the next hill only may decipher the code. In the late Renascence, bestiary were supplanted by encyclopedium, making a broader knowledge of koala and alike marsupials more pedestrian. I believe any imaginative restaurateur would have foreseen such a possibility and altered the menu as to not include eucalyptus, taking a proactive stance.
2007-09-05 11:04:59 · answer #2 · answered by TD Euwaite? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
English is my third, not even second, language. I found it very difficult, especially when it comes to the proper usage of articles. While other languages I speak are much more complex as form of nouns and verbs changes depending on how they are used in a sentence, English was a tough challenge for me. punctuation is extremely important in conveying the intended meaning, but also in making reading an easy, and free flowing task. Unfortunately, I see many examples of very poor, or downright incorrect use of punctuation in places like Yahoo or Google news. I think it is the sign of not enough importance being placed in school on learning the rules which govern the proper use of punctuation.
But, schools are not what they used to be when I was young. I believe there has been a serious erosion of standards.
Now, having said all this, please forgive me any punctuation errors.
2007-09-05 09:27:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
two great quotes on this topic, for your amusement...
"We are like the little boy in The Sixth Sense who can see dead people, except that we can see dead punctuation. Whisper it in petrified little-boy tones: dead punctuation is invisible to everyone else--yet we see it all the time. No one understands us seventh-sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to 'get a life' by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves."
"To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as 'Thank God its Friday' (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive 'its' (no apostrophe) with the contractive 'it's' (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a simple Pavlovian 'kill' response in the average stickler. . . . Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you persist in writing 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave."
2007-09-05 14:19:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like the following as an example of the importance of punctuation. The two letters below have the exact same words, but the punctuation differs. As you can see they have a completely different tone and meaning.
Dear John:
I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we’re apart. I can forever be happy-will you let me be yours.
Harriet
Dear John:
I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we’re apart, I can forever be happy. Will you let me be?
Yours
Harriet
2007-09-05 09:05:12 · answer #5 · answered by ghouly05 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The English language is an enigma to some.
It reminds me of Captain's log.
On Star Trek, Who was Captain Slog anyway?
2007-09-05 08:46:06 · answer #6 · answered by Marla ™ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yeah , as lives , learns , knows and then , JUST LEFT without leaving any traces of whatsoever for others to fools around with it's GIN.
2007-09-05 09:07:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋