[HN Gopher] Comma Gets a Cure (2000)
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       Comma Gets a Cure (2000)
        
       Author : EndXA
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-06-19 09:40 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.dialectsarchive.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.dialectsarchive.com)
        
       | hofo wrote:
       | Ok but then what happened?
        
         | beardyw wrote:
         | That's Comma 2.
        
       | kevinmgranger wrote:
       | Does this page not work with middle-click scrolling for anyone
       | else?
        
         | Jackim wrote:
         | Looks like that may have been caught in the crossfire when they
         | blocked right-clicking.
        
           | Suppafly wrote:
           | >when they blocked right-clicking
           | 
           | Which is a stupid thing to do.
        
       | SamBam wrote:
       | I kept expecting this to end with some silly grammatical pun.
       | Like a shaggy-dog version of "Eats, shoots and leaves."
        
       | ano-ther wrote:
       | Cool. The linked podcast explains that this passage was crafted
       | to contain all the sounds of English and their combinations.
       | https://www.paulmeier.com/2020/01/01/episode-24-dialect-coac...
       | 
       | When I first read it, I glanced over the intro and the website
       | and was expecting some play with commas completely changing the
       | meaning.
        
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