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deepbluemetal@mastodon-japan.net's status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 16:29:37 JST deepbluemetal

句読点が非常に大事な例(極端)
He eats, shoots and leaves.
(ヤツは食って撃って逃げる)
He eats shoots and leaves.
(彼は芽と葉を食べる)

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  deepbluemetal@mastodon-japan.net's status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 16:42:37 JST deepbluemetal
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  もともとは、主語がPandaですね。句読点(punctuation)について書かれた英語の本に出てきたシチュエーションです
  Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves
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    Eats, Shoots & Leaves
    
    Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of BBC Radio 4's Cutting a Dash programme. In the book, published in 2003, Truss bemoans the state of punctuation in the United Kingdom and the United States and describes how rules are being relaxed in today's society. Her goal is to remind readers of the importance of punctuation in the English language by mixing humour and instruction. Truss dedicates the book "to the memory of the striking Bolshevik printers of St. Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same rate for punctuation marks as for letters, and thereby directly precipitated the first Russian Revolution": she added this dedication as an afterthought after remembering the factoid when reading one of her radio plays. Overview There is one chapter each on apostrophes; commas; semicolons and colons; exclamation marks, question marks and quotation marks; italic type, dashes, brackets, ellipses and emoticons; and hyphens. Truss touches on varied aspects of the history of punctuation...

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