Monday 19 November 2007
You have no soul
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This is worse than your average splice as the comma unintentionally turns the phrase, 'you have no soul' into a subordinating clause. In other words – because of the people who use the bin for rubbish, the reader of the sign has no soul. I like to imagine a particularly forlorn student (possibly listening to My Chemical Romance or the Smiths) wandering past this notice and thinking, "So that's it; I knew someone was to blame."
Brilliantly, a passing zealot spotted this error and resolved it with an act of grammar vigilantism.
Found on my current favourite blog, Passive Aggressive Notes, this example of a comma splice altering the meaning of a sentence is a lesson to all who use commas like confetti.
This is worse than your average splice as the comma unintentionally turns the phrase, 'you have no soul' into a subordinating clause. In other words – because of the people who use the bin for rubbish, the reader of the sign has no soul. I like to imagine a particularly forlorn student (possibly listening to My Chemical Romance or the Smiths) wandering past this notice and thinking, "So that's it; I knew someone was to blame."Brilliantly, a passing zealot spotted this error and resolved it with an act of grammar vigilantism.
Labels: comma, comma splice, funny, passive-aggressive notes, punctuation
posted by Gez at 12:28 pm
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I love that last sentence. I have a weakness for sentences starting with an adverb and a comma, and then at the other end you've got the nugget "grammar vigilantism." Sweet. I hope that springs back to mind if I ever need it.
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