Or so says Stephen Fry, the voice behind Little Big Planet (among other things), in this beautiful video showcasing an eloquent use of speech, bashing those who nit-pick language. Do misplaced apostrophes make you mad? This might be good for you. Do you love to talk? This will be good for you too.
[youtube J7E-aoXLZGY]One of the people he mentions is Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. This is a great example of what Stephen Fry was talking about.
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.’Why?’ asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
‘Well, I’m a panda,’ he says, at the door. ‘Look it up.’
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. ‘Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.’
So, do pandas eat, shoot and leave, or…?
Don't exactly know what that was.. But it was entertaining. Bahaha
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