{"id":501,"date":"2011-01-30T11:36:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T09:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/?p=501"},"modified":"2011-01-30T11:36:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T09:36:35","slug":"poignant-punctuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/poignant-punctuation\/","title":{"rendered":"POIGNANT PUNCTUATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/poignant-punctuation\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/poignant-punctuation\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><h1><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>PUNCTUATION MAKES A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><em>Just in case you think punctuation doesn\u2019t matter, check this out. Here are two versions of the same letter. The only difference is the punctuation.\u00a0 Which <\/em><em>type of letter<\/em><em> would you rather receive?<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_502\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Punctuation-729440.gif.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-502\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-502\" title=\"Punctuation-729440.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Punctuation-729440.gif-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PUNCTUATION<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>DEAR JOHN LETTER ONE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear John<\/p>\n<p>I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, 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\u2019re apart. I can be forever happy\u2013will you let me be yours?<\/p>\n<p>Gloria<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEAR JOHN LETTER TWO<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Dear John<\/p>\n<p>I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, 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\u2019re apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be?<\/p>\n<p>Yours, Gloria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punctuation can make a huge difference to meaning.  Here we have two letters which illustrate this perfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}