Saturday, April 20, 2013

Punctuation, Capitalization - Not for the Faint of Heart

The other day Danielle set about telling me a co-worker related story thusly -

"A guy at work hung a funny Chinese guy..."

Or at least, you know, that's what it sounded like to me.  But before I could process this enough to have her re-boot the anecdote, what flashed through my mind was, "What could this Chinese guy have done to warrant such an extreme reprisal?" (Simple racism, perhaps? Or had he been just too Goddamn funny for his own good?)

As it turns out, though, the story (which completely escapes me now) was about the Chinese guy, as in -

"A guy at work, Hung, a funny Chinese guy..."

Punctuation and capitalization - not for the faint of heart...

IBL:mm


1 comment:

Civility.