" … eight-hours of uninterrupted sleep …"

[Jonathan Lighter]

>Do people just guess at what punctuation is supposed to be?

Only an over-fifty prescriptivist twit like myself would dare make such a
condescending ask.

JL

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Do people just guess at what punctuation is supposed to be?
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