Comma Chameleon

July 13, 2007 – 10:10 pm

With a hat tip to Kevin Kim, here is a wonderful example of the power of punctuation to alter the meaning of written English.

Posted by Malcolm on at 10:10 pm, filed under Language. RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

3 Comments

  1. Kevin Kim says

    Thanks for the shout-out.

    Kevin

    Posted July 14, 2007 at 11:03 am | Permalink
  2. eugene says

    This is cool. It is the same in Chinese, the meaning of a paragraph can be interpreted in multiple fashions, depending on the punctuations.

    Posted July 14, 2007 at 8:10 pm | Permalink
  3. Malcolm says

    This is by far the cleverest example of this I have ever seen.

    Posted July 14, 2007 at 8:22 pm | Permalink

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