• MuhammadJesusGaySex@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    “A pickle for the knowing one” was a book written completely without punctuation. When people bitched about it. He printed a second edition that that last few ages were nothing but punctuation with the instructions to put them where you want them.

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      10 months ago

      The only rule on punctuation that I ever learned in English was:

      If in doubt - leave it out

      Anyway, I fully acknowledge that my cellphone autocorrected my first comment wrongly and that “its” should have had an apostrophe. I’m just not going to edit it, because it makes no sense in any other way, so no one should be able to misunderstand the sentence and the grammar nazi added nothing of value.