The power of punctuation
My friend Vahid proposed a funny (and traditional) linguistic game:
"Punctuate the following sentence in a way that appeals to women. (Without moving the words around) All punctuation marks are allowed: A woman without her man is nothing". The answer is: "The woman: without her, man is nothing!"
So, in portuguese, we have some linguistic games too. For exemple: "Se o homem soubesse o valor que tem a mulher ficaria de joelhos à sua frente" With a comma, you can change the meaning... and you can make sexist sentences... appealing to women or to men. :-)
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So, Judy... You could write these spanish joke for us... In you profile!
Thank you, dear :-)
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This is so funny!! In spanish we have a game about this, where a man writes a poem without punctuation to 3 women who are crazy in love about him. Each woman punctuates the text according to her own interests, but at last the poet sends them the real punctuation where he refuses all of them, it's very funny, but at the same time make us realize about the importance of correct punctuation :)
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:-) Muito obrigada, Dário!
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Oi Emiliane, que divertido! Não conhecia esta forma de humorismo brasileiro. Muito bom o seu texto! Só duas correções: Portuguese, example (você pode também dizer "for instance"). But I guess those were not errors, just slips. Ciao!
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Tom, you are a great person, but you first deleted me in skype and italki I don't know why...
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