Saturday, January 31, 2009

Quirky Euro Files: the English Town That Banned Apostrophes

Sheer linguistic lunacy, frankly.

7 comments:

lumpenscholar said...

Meh punctuation is for sissies none of those old Chinese dudes used it and if writing without punctuation was good enough for them it should be good enough for us

Mad Minerva said...

YOUKNOWBACKINTHEOLDROMANDAYSPEOPLEDIDNTUSESPACESBETWEENWORDSANDWROTEINALLCAPSALLTHETIMESODOINGTHISWOULDATLEASTBEHISTORICALLYACCURATEDONTYOUTHINK

lumpenscholar said...

EXACTLYWASTEOFSPACEISAYESPECIALLYWHEN
YOUHAVETOCARVEEVERYTHINGINSTONE

Mad Minerva said...

IWOULDUSECUNEIFORMNOW
BUTIDONTHAVETHERIGHTFONT

lumpenscholar said...

CAVEPAINTINGSMADDIE
NEEDAWACOMTABLET

Mad Minerva said...

*bear**hunter**spear*hunter**hunter**dead bear**great rejoicing in the land**hunter's wife making bear soup*

lumpenscholar said...

*caveman laughing ass off, rolling around on cave floor*