[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
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| 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...
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| 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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