Monday 9 February 2009

I often wonder about this, too

From xkcd:




If anyone knows the answer, please tell!

2 comments:

  1. and me :-)

    I normally work around it by making sure the smiley is in the middle of the parenthetic statement. Often this leads to fairly contorted sentence structures.

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  2. Quite. As Churchill said to a grammar pedant, "is this the kind of English up with which we have to put?"

    :o)

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