OT: Spelling/punctuation/grammar (was Re: OT: Sci-fi (was...))

[CDAY]

Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Bob Rasmussen (Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:53:40 -0700 (PDT)):
> 
> 
>>On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Fairlight wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 06:48:52PM -0500, Mike Schwartz (PC Support)
>>
>>may or may not have
>>
>>>proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
>>>
>>>>   Let me tell you that this group has more important issues to
>>
>>contemplate
>>
>>>>than the correct use of English.
>>>
>>>Amen.  What's up with the hostility, folks?  :)
>>
>>I'll admit to being overtaken with irony, at least, if not hostility, by
>>people grumbling about what "kids these days" are being taught, or not,
>>while botching up punctuation usage.
> 
> 
> Well, there's "oops, that was a slip of the fingers / brain fart", and
> "I don't know the difference between it's and its, or there/their/they're".
> Who here has not heard of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves"?
> 
> Please punctuate the following:
> 
>     John where Nancy had had had had had had had had had had had a
>     better effect.


Since the above configuration makes no sense to me, I'd just chop it a bit.

John, where Nancy had had, had ... a better effect.

Charles Day