“The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Quite, right, too!!! Where would we be without proper punctuation!!!! Or grammar!!!!! Writing this post in all probability!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
Having a first-class honours degree in English Language and Literature probably helps Lynne on her quest immensely. Sadly, for those, like me, who don’t know their apostrophe from their elbow, things get a lot trickier. Guess and hope nobody notices is the best it gets here. Oh, yeah!
It is all too easy to make a grammatical gaff though, innit? Even just a few missing comas could mean that Paul, who loves cooking, his wife, and his cats, could soon find himself in all sorts of bother for liking “cooking his wife and his cats.” But a simple proofread would surely tell you that something was amiss, wouldn’t it?
Which made me wonder, while feeding my cats, just what Morrisons were thinking when they made this…
Chunks. Earlier.
Perhaps the serving suggestion should be “with a nice Chianti?”
Fin.
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Tags: Cat Food, Cats, Eats Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss, Morrisons
