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This was the first outside message that he had ever received, and for a while it threatened to be too much for him, especially as the absence of punctuation made it still more enigmatical. He faithfully transcribed each letter as he made it out and then the agglomeration read: "Josiamn otkildho spitalat chatano ogabadl ywounded ecbower sox."
Maybe I'm old yet but I ain't dead yet und I could fight " The words came disjointedly, mere punctuation points to his wild sparring. It was plain that Irish, furious though he was, was trying not to hurt Patsy very much; but it took four men to separate them for all that.
You don't ever have nothin' to eat." "I didn't eat to-day," said Titee, blazing up. "You did!" "I tell you I didn't!" and Titee's hard little fist planted a punctuation mark on his comrade's eye. A fight in the schoolyard! Poor Titee was in disgrace again.
I have sometimes played with the idea that a ruthlessly literal translation, helped out by bold punctuation, might be the best. For instance, premising that the words poesis, poetes mean originally 'making' and 'maker', one might translate the first paragraph of the Poetics thus: MAKING: kinds of making: function of each, and how the Myths ought to be put together if the Making is to go right.
Some of them were beautiful beyond description; others were terrible beyond compare, and so hard to understand. Each day made its own paragraphs and punctuation marks, and how surprising and unexpected many of them were! Commas would become semicolons and periods give place to exclamation points, in the most reckless sort of fashion.
He had likewise proved, that by altering the received mode of punctuation, any one of Shakespeare's plays could be made quite different, and the sense completely changed; it is needless to say, therefore, that he was a great critic, and a very profound and most original thinker. 'Well, Miss Snevellicci, said Mrs Curdle, entering the parlour, 'and how do YOU do?
At the end of the seventeenth century, the ecclesiastical contention that the Hebrew punctuation was divinely inspired seemed to be generally disproven.
Three volumes appeared in 1764, and the conclusion in 1771. Andrew Reid undertook to persuade Lyttelton, as he had persuaded himself, that he was master of the secret of punctuation; and, as fear begets credulity, he was employed, I know not at what price, to point the pages of Henry the Second.
Say a wicked epigram; do any thing, only don't be so eminently amiable!" "My head is as empty of ideas," he returned laughing, in his turn, "as is a modern title-page of punctuation points. Besides, Edith has forbidden wicked epigrams." "Does she therefore suppose she can suppress them?" "Oh, I don't know," responded Fenton, good-humoredly. "I am not in as epigrammatic a frame of mind as I was."
I am sure they would never touch my book." "Did you tell them what it was?" "I did, of course. I always told everybody what my precious book was. I asked them to sign my promise, and they both did so." "Oh!" exclaimed Jack, whistling his punctuation. "They did sign, did they?" "Why, I thought you knew that," replied Wren. "But I did not see the book after they signed, so I do not know their names.
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