Do we need more stories that are humorous? or...... Do we need stories that are more humorous?
How Punctuation can make a sentence ambiguous and even change the meaning altogether.
Punctuation serves an important purpose in writing - to separate sentences, where to pause, where to place emphasis on particular words.
The comma, a little punctuation mark, can make a HUGE difference!
It can most of the time create amusement but, in some cases, it can also be a life-threatening danger.
Here is one of the most typical examples found on the Internet: Its = possessive pronoun (mine, yours, his, its…) or it´s = it is (it´s good or…)
Some humorous examples: “Most of the time, travelers worry about their luggage”, versus “Most of the time travelers worry about their luggage”. (are these time-travelers?) dunno
A teacher wrote on the blackboard ‘A woman without her man is nothing’ and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.
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.’
and more that I would be too embarrassed to write here.
Anyway.... although I am quite new here and still learning, I am learning extremely fast. I have raised many eyebrows, I have received numerous emails - some wanting to meet me, and others with some indecent proposals - all in other universes many light-years away
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Help, More Humorous Stories Are Needed
I can see any ambiguity here either?Anyway, thanks for the joke.