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November 2, 2005
Punctuation and the Almighty
As ads come onto the sites, it is my job to check they're ok. Recently on the London site I edited an ad posted by someone with an artistic approach to punctuation and grammar. The ad was for something fairly mundane, like a car stereo, but there was one point in it where the seller instructed readers that “for more information contact Me on …”. That tickled me: I suddenly had an image of an old man, with a long grey beard and wearing flowing white robes, sitting on a cloud and wondering what on earth he was going to do with that darned car stereo Archangel Gabriel gave him last Christmas, now that Jesus had just written his car off. Well, what on earth indeed, but sell it on Adzooks! Unfortunately, I decided the M had to go, in favour of an m; it just didn’t seem right that God would be based in Middlesex, not even in one of the nicer parts. Harrow on the Hill as the English Mount Sinai? I’ll carry on editing those ads.
Posted by Selina at November 2, 2005 12:14 PM
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Posted by: Timothy Campbell at November 19, 2005 11:26 AM