Lets eat Grandad.
or,
Let’s eat, Grandad.
How wonderful commas are. Potential life savers……
Here is a ‘Dear John’ letter where punctuation makes all the difference between love and hate:
Dear John,
I want a man who knows what love is all about you are generous kind and thoughtful people who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior you have ruined me for other men I yearn for you I have no feelings whatsoever when were apart I can be forever happy will you let me be yours
Gloria
Love:
Dear John,
I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous kind and thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we’re apart. I can be forever happy. Will you let me be yours?
Gloria
Hate:
Dear John,
I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind and thoughtful people who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me; for other men I yearn. For you I have no feelings whatsoever. When we’re apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be!
Yours,
Gloria
So, in a world where we communicate more by written word than face to face, maybe it’s worth checking our punctuation if we really want to convey the intended meaning………………..
APR
About the Author
Phil has over thirty years working in key management roles with particular expertise in Finance, Sales, Service, Teamworking, Culture Change and Performance Management. For more than twenty years he was involved in the very demanding Corporate Banking world. He has hosted and facilitated conferences for large organisations on a Europe wide basis. He is a qualified psychometric assessor for staff recruitment and MBTi qualified. He is an NLP Practitioner. In addition Phil is an accredited deliverer of “Celemi” Business Simulations. He has a real skill in taking complex concepts and models and bringing these to life. He has designed and implemented Learning and Development programmes into major organisations and now works in design and delivery of “Attitudinal Based Learning” and “Accelerated Learning”. Loves: Time with family and friends, Real Beer, Music, Walking - particularly along the coast.