Wednesday 4 September 2013

Mangling Meaning, # 16

The omission of a comma here changes the intended meaning entirely:


The full stop shows that the version above (recorded on 27 August 2013, at 10.32) was treated as a complete sentence. The current version (which shows a date-stamp timed some half-hour earlier) is presented as part of a more complex sentence, but the crucial comma is still missing:


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