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Chat Messages - misunderstandings

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Posted 2003-April-08, 10:19

How often I wonder do our hard pressed Yellows have to mediate when it is just a case of a language misunderstanding ?

I came across the following and I thought it may demonstrate how easy it is to misunderstand, so before taking offense let it go  - it is probably just a case of the missing punctuation.   :B)

An English Professor wrote on the blackboard the following words and asked his class to punctuate them  for him.

"Woman without her man is nothing"

The men in the class wrote:

Woman, without her man, is nothing.

The women in the class wrote:

Woman !  Without her, man is nothing.

Punctuation or gender difference   -   forget the text - enjoy the Bridge   :)
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Posted 2003-April-08, 22:55

LOL, agree:)

(frome one who breake any rule in the English language, but who manage it's own above average:))
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