a social experiment

[plural]

follow the instructions below
first click

"comment on this"

do not click "read comments"

then proceed to apply whatever punctuation
you believe is necessary to
the following sentence,

"Woman without her man is nothing"

post your reply
and continue
on with your life

thank you
for your
cooperation

Comments

[damion.livejournal.com]

Well, I think you need an A in there, but as it stands:
Woman, without her man, is nothing.

[lianna.livejournal.com]

"Woman! Without her, man is nothing."
:P

A technicality

[damion.livejournal.com]

He said that it was one sentance :D

Re: A technicality

[lianna.livejournal.com]

"proceed to apply whatever punctuation
you believe is necessary to
the following sentence.."

he did not say it needed to remain one sentence.

Re: A technicality

[damion.livejournal.com]

When he said "the following sentance" he indicated that the modifications were to be to the one sentance. By splitting it into two sentances, you are no longer adding punctuation to that sentance. You are instead adding punctuation to two seperate sentances.

[hellarad.livejournal.com]

woman.
without her,
man is
nothing.

[strike-anywhere.livejournal.com]

?!

oh come on.

[hellarad.livejournal.com]

i feel the
need to quote
the post now, too.

"continue on with your life"

does it really matter?

Re: oh come on.

[damion.livejournal.com]

Of course not.
But we've all bitten, so we might as well have fun with it :D

Re: A technicality

[lianna.livejournal.com]

The modifications I made were to that one sentence.
He said "apply whatever punctuation
you believe is necessary", which I did.
The fact that the punctuations made two sentences from what once was one sentence, is irrelevant.

Picking nits

[damion.livejournal.com]

Except you had to seperate them into two sentances before you could add the punctuation. Putting an end capping punctuation mark in the middle of a sentance doesn't make a new sentance, it just makes it wrong :D
Forgive me if I'm getting on your nerves though. If you care to respond again, I'll not argue.

Re: Picking nits

[lianna.livejournal.com]

My, aren't you sententious ;)

lovely moth btw..or is it a butterfly?

Re: Picking nits

[damion.livejournal.com]

Oooooh... good word :D
Thanks. It's the best picture of a lunar moth I could find.

well, i have my suspicions on how most people are going to punctuate it.

[lostdream.livejournal.com]

so i'm going to do so differently, without looking. and hope that i am right. because generally people prefer to be pc, non?

"Woman without her man, is nothing"

rebel-ish
dream

..

[whorlpool.livejournal.com]

Woman: without her, man is nothing.

Re: ..

[damion.livejournal.com]

Oof. :D

[ex-moriah701.livejournal.com]

Women without men are nothing.

[rosiepj.livejournal.com]

I will make two different corrections.
"Woman without man is wo."
"Woman without her man is nothing?"
ok, three.
"Woman, without her, man is nothing"

[zaiah.livejournal.com]

Women! Without her, Man is No thing.

[mfluder.livejournal.com]

woman, without her man is nothing.

[mnemosyne.livejournal.com]

woman. without her, man is nothing.

Punctuation being not exactly my strong point....

[licoricelaces.livejournal.com]

Woman : Without her, man is nothing.

[lilybleu.livejournal.com]

woman, without her, man is nothing.

He.

[ironmaus.livejournal.com]

You know, I have this terrible feeling that all 23 of the people who've gone before me have gone the riot grrrl, politically correct route and written: "Woman; without her, man is nothing."

Shit.

Well, how about this:

"Woman. Without her, man, is nothing."

There, that'll stand out from the crowd.