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Surprise: Some People Do Not Understand Grammar
Max Read · 07/06/10 10:50PMNoam Chomsky Denied Entry to Israel
Max Read · 05/16/10 07:40PM'Times' Excited By Proper Punctuation
Pareene · 02/18/08 10:59AMThe Times was sooo thrilled to find a vaguely correct use of a semicolon on a subway ad that they tracked down the copywriter (who has a degree in creative writing, natch) and wrote a whole cutesy piece about how rare it is that civilians punctuate properly. Then they asked various famous linguists and grammarians to comment: