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"A woman without her man is nothing"
Students were asked to punctuate this phrase.
All of the males in the class wrote:
"A woman, without her man, is nothing."
All the females in the class wrote:
"A woman: without her, man is nothing."
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Quick, pass me that latest electronic gadget while I plan my journey using this 3D map!
Brrrmmmm!!!!!
Please, don't stop.
Please don't, stop.
Quoted that during a writing lecture - never forgotten it.
tee shirt?
teeshirt?
tee-shirt?
Although personally I'd use top...
;)
my dictionary says 'tannoy' and not 'Tannoy' ;)
tee shirt may well be the right one, pbw, but it always makes me think of golf
not the car :) but then, sometimes, one never knows .....
Yes, you're quite right, actually. Maybe I should change it back to that, but I've never quite liked it. Somehow T-shirt looks too "product description" and jolts me out of the narrative.
"Today she wore a turquoise T-shirt with an orange butterfly motif on it."
"Today she wore a turquoise tee shirt with an orange butterfly motif on it."
I don't know now. What do you think?
For God'sake!
[quote=pbw]"Today she wore a turquoise T-shirt with an orange butterfly motif on it."[/quote]
Nothing wrong with this at all
Okay, I'm OCD. I don't care! :D
Openly Confessional Dillydallyer
but again, what's wrong with that? :)
If T-shirt suggests "hippie", that's good, but if hippies wore/wear tee shirts, then I'll have to change it back again.
Huh!
20 years ago I would have said "A bit less of the old".
Quite. ;)
OCD, me, only when it comes to a liberal splashing of commas. Or tea.
God be praised, I thought it was just me! How are you with semi-colons and colons?
She IS a Sagittarius - how did you know? Anyway, turquoise and orange are opposites on the colour wheel, so they are fine together.
So far, I have settled on T-shirt, but I could change it to t-shirt.
I've read your book pbw.
The quotes are a bit odd in the threads lately.
Not quite sure what you're referring to, here.
Thanks for reading my book, Maro.
Here's another question, spelling this time, rather than writing.
Which is more contemporary "hippie" or "hippy"?
I think the "ie" ending may be the correct one, but somehow I have ended up with both spellings in my text and I'll have to settle on one of them.
it was, Hippy.
The quotes are are right but sometimes the person being quoted is wrong.
My post 1 day ago and your quote 16hrs ago.
I have noticed this on other threads also.
Oh yes, now I remember, when TB gets indigestion. You can edit it manually, though.
it was, Hippy.[/quote]
It matters what the contemporary reader would prefer, I think, rather than being historically correct. My 23rd century hippies (phew, no probs with the plural) are a manifestation of their time, in the same way as "new age" evolves. If "hippy" seems old-fashioned but authentic, I would rather have "hippie" as the updated format.
Any other offerings?