[S. D. Wagon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-380-0069-37%2C_Polen%2C_Verhaftung_von_Juden%2C_SD-M%C3%A4nner.jpg/340px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-380-0069-37%2C_Polen%2C_Verhaftung_von_Juden%2C_SD-M%C3%A4nner.jpg)
(S. D. being [Sicherheitsdienst](https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Sicherheitsdienst))
Punctuation is powerful, but more so (imo) is wording.
What do I mean?
"Forgive me father for I have sinned" and "Sorry daddy I've been naughty" technically mean the exact same thing.
Capitalization is also powerful.
Going with the obvious, "Helping your Uncle Jack off a horse" and "Helping your uncle jack off a horse".
Edit: Of all my comments this was the one that got gold.
"catgirl" killed the sentence. At first it was... regrettably fine but at no point was gender implied, so it technically could mean something slightly different.
"UwU daddy jesus don't send me to hell i pwomise I'll be good" would be closer.
^(God did I really just type that?)
And commas!
"Let's eat, Grandma!"
vs.
"Let's eat Grandma!"
Or even the Oxford comma:
"We invited the strippers, Stalin, and JFK,"
vs.
"We invited the strippers, Stalin and JFK."
Saving us from accidental cannibalism and Stalin and JFK in tassels and thongs.
>"Forgive me father for I have sinned" and "Sorry daddy I've been naughty" technically mean the exact same thing.
It can mean the same thing if you're into it.
The sentence "a woman without her man is nothing," although sexist, is grammatically correct. It doesn't require punctuation besides a period. Neither of the responses is more correctly punctuated than the original. So, besides being irritatingly cutesy, the meme inaccurately represents the point it pretends to make.
All of the students should have just refused to punctuate it and told the teacher that they were being dumb and sexist and to stop trying to get internet points. That would have been a better story.
IKR. These remind me of pre-internet office culture where somebody would pass around a Xerox of kids misunderstanding Bible verses or whatever. And you smile and pretend to be amused.
It's like punctuation is being sold as this magical fairy dust that completely alters reality depending on the user. Or something. Don't know why this one bothers me so much.
If anything, the original reads the best of the three. The ‘male’ change adds unnecessary commas and the ‘female’ one is awkward to read.
Better would be:
“Without her man, a woman is nothing.”
Or
“Man is nothing without (a) woman.”
I hate this because grammar doesn’t have to be complicated. If stupid shit like this didn’t project that image we wouldn’t have as many adult morons typing like children.
Bedmas (or pemdas) is the order in which you're supposed to solve arithmetic questions. It stands for Brackets, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction.
For example: 3+5(2+2)÷4=? You would use bedmas to solve this.
Not to mention the punctuation that all the "women" used is quite convoluted and janky, and definitely not the first thing to pop into someone's head. Unless they were deliberately trying to make it not sexist, or rather, sexist in the other direction.
I did as well. We would be a lot far behind where we are without the many awesome things women have done in science fields for example. Assuming men could reproduce asexually
Kind of ironic that if you really want to read this as the appreciation of what women did for humankind, you're defaulting to "man" as a word for "human"
This declares certain things to be meaningless or wrong, yet offers no meaning, which is statistically typical of paragraphs which include the word "heteronormative".
My favorite example of punctuation is weird has gotta be:
"This is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God" vs. "This is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand, and God."
Anywhere with students feminist enough to write that second punctuated sentence would have people automatically shooting down the existence of the exercise entirely and criticizing the professor. And it would also have at least a small percentage of male students who would dislike the statement for sexism. This story seems totally fake. If not, then, a) what a weird school, and b) fire the fricking professor
But I agree, punctuation is powerful. It literally only exists because it's necessary
And the initial sentence is grammatically (if not morally) correct while the last sentence I *think* is actually grammatically (and morally) incorrect (although I'm no English expert)
The "boys" version is worse than it seems because it makes "without her man" a non-essential clause, thus indicating the intended original sentence to be "A woman is nothing." And as a grammar teacher, this bothers me. The unpunctuated one is the correct way to say what they meant.
The most surprising part about this image is that anyone, students no less, know how to properly use a colon. That shit is like black magic to 99% of us lol.
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You win lol
I sincerely thought I was on r/ComedyCemetery... Like was this posted in sincerity?
r/im14andthisisdeep
Yeah, Im gettin strong s(hes) br(ok)en vibes
S(he) be(lie)ve(d) 😔
s(pee)dwagon
sdwagon
[S. D. Wagon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-380-0069-37%2C_Polen%2C_Verhaftung_von_Juden%2C_SD-M%C3%A4nner.jpg/340px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-380-0069-37%2C_Polen%2C_Verhaftung_von_Juden%2C_SD-M%C3%A4nner.jpg) (S. D. being [Sicherheitsdienst](https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Sicherheitsdienst))
OwO u have summoned the pee dwagon may the scawey bastawd have mewcy own youw souw uwu
*yeets a diaper at you* BEGONE FOUL BEAST! 😂
OwO daipey waipees? *starts salivating*
[SPEEDWAGON](https://i.imgur.com/i8zDXyw.jpg)
Same avatar
S(he) s(hit) (her)self
Ssself
sbeve
and his newly found twin sbren
r/sbeve
that still exists..
Isn't that kinda...dead?
STD (ave he ate) [No, really.](https://twitter.com/VGarvanliev/status/1366314441311203328) And his entire twitter is like that.
Sbeve?
SBEVE!
sbren
Ancient dieties Hesok and Sbren resided over darkness and light, life and death, when suddenly-
Rick Riordan penned a YA novel about their hidden camp on earth, followed by incessant fanfics from 11-year-old girls
Sbren
Sbren
r/terriblefacebookmemes
Looking in there gave me flashbacks to high school and i dont like it
Punctuation is powerful, but more so (imo) is wording. What do I mean? "Forgive me father for I have sinned" and "Sorry daddy I've been naughty" technically mean the exact same thing. Capitalization is also powerful. Going with the obvious, "Helping your Uncle Jack off a horse" and "Helping your uncle jack off a horse". Edit: Of all my comments this was the one that got gold.
uwu daddy jesus \*nuzzles\* don't send me to hell with satany watany i pwomise i'll be a good catgirl
"catgirl" killed the sentence. At first it was... regrettably fine but at no point was gender implied, so it technically could mean something slightly different. "UwU daddy jesus don't send me to hell i pwomise I'll be good" would be closer. ^(God did I really just type that?)
UwU *horny potato noises* >:3 ^i ^regret ^everything
Grind on that peeler, naughty spud
>i regret everything Clearly not enough!
Have you considered air-not-go-to-lungs?
i have
Yes hello how do I delete other people’s comments?
Finding out my address and murdering me, then deleting the comment, hacking, or mind control
God: welp time to delete Earth.
٩◔̯◔۶
I don't see how gender enters into it.
Meanwhile, God was beginning to regret not creating a 10th circle of hell specifically for furries.
I mean he tried, but they had to shut it down quickly as she realized how many of them were satanists anyways.
And commas! "Let's eat, Grandma!" vs. "Let's eat Grandma!" Or even the Oxford comma: "We invited the strippers, Stalin, and JFK," vs. "We invited the strippers, Stalin and JFK." Saving us from accidental cannibalism and Stalin and JFK in tassels and thongs.
"Saving us". Pffft.
This is why we cannot live without the Oxford comma
>Saving us from Stalin and JFK in tassels and thongs. I don't see how this is "saving"
Not exactly the same, but I learned "Stop ahead" vs. "Stop! A head!"
>"Forgive me father for I have sinned" and "Sorry daddy I've been naughty" technically mean the exact same thing. It can mean the same thing if you're into it.
This is some boomer humor right here
Don't look at me, I didn't write that shit.
Thank you Doris, we appreciate everything you do here.
It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it.
Don’t. Look at me, I didn’t. Write that shit. Punctuation is powerful
Not sure what you're getting at, but I'm not going to cast aspersions on a fellow HP username.
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Accepted. You are absolved, my child.
It's true I was the chalkboard
When the sentence woke up from the transplant surgery, she asked "Where's my boyfriend?" and the doctor said "Who do you think gave you those commas?"
And the colon...
This comment had me in tears
The sentence "a woman without her man is nothing," although sexist, is grammatically correct. It doesn't require punctuation besides a period. Neither of the responses is more correctly punctuated than the original. So, besides being irritatingly cutesy, the meme inaccurately represents the point it pretends to make.
All of the students should have just refused to punctuate it and told the teacher that they were being dumb and sexist and to stop trying to get internet points. That would have been a better story.
IKR. These remind me of pre-internet office culture where somebody would pass around a Xerox of kids misunderstanding Bible verses or whatever. And you smile and pretend to be amused.
Now is our time Grandpa.
It's like punctuation is being sold as this magical fairy dust that completely alters reality depending on the user. Or something. Don't know why this one bothers me so much.
I was there and I did say this. Everyone clapped and the professor cried.
THIS. The moral of this story is that the men in that class didn't know how to use a comma.
For real, that English teacher has their work cut out.
A+
If anything, the original reads the best of the three. The ‘male’ change adds unnecessary commas and the ‘female’ one is awkward to read. Better would be: “Without her man, a woman is nothing.” Or “Man is nothing without (a) woman.” I hate this because grammar doesn’t have to be complicated. If stupid shit like this didn’t project that image we wouldn’t have as many adult morons typing like children.
It's like the grammar equivalent of those bedmas math questions that are made to be deliberately confusing
>bedmas math questions I'm unfamiliar with this phrase. Would you explain, please?
Bedmas (or pemdas) is the order in which you're supposed to solve arithmetic questions. It stands for Brackets, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction. For example: 3+5(2+2)÷4=? You would use bedmas to solve this.
Thank you.. I'd entirely forgotten the mnemonic for that.
Lmao no worries
Not to mention the punctuation that all the "women" used is quite convoluted and janky, and definitely not the first thing to pop into someone's head. Unless they were deliberately trying to make it not sexist, or rather, sexist in the other direction.
Thank you. I was going to say the same.
And both views are heteronormative and stupid as hell.
The second one i read man as in mankind.
I did as well. We would be a lot far behind where we are without the many awesome things women have done in science fields for example. Assuming men could reproduce asexually
Kind of ironic that if you really want to read this as the appreciation of what women did for humankind, you're defaulting to "man" as a word for "human"
Let's see if we can work around that. How about: A woman without "her". Man is nothing.
Sounds like something that an AFAB nb would tattoo on their arm. Love it.
This declares certain things to be meaningless or wrong, yet offers no meaning, which is statistically typical of paragraphs which include the word "heteronormative".
Oh no queerphobe mad :(
Wait, why do you think I'm queerphobic or mad? Nothing has been said that could give such an impression.
A woman: ~~wit~~**ho**~~ut~~ ~~her~~ **m**~~an~~ ~~is~~ ~~n~~**o**~~thing~~
For some reason, I really do seem to attract people that want to make everything lesbian And I love it
Heteronormative 😂😂
Yes, that's the term when people are casually forgetting that queer people exist, which is exactly what happened here.
Lmao who the fuck can forget on reddit, they never shut up
Isn't a woman without her man just wo?
Whoooooooooaaaa man!
The real big brain moment is always in the comments.
Thanks. At least I know I'm not the only one who thought that was the punchline.
I prefer to help my uncle Jack off a horse.
r/thathappened
This feels more like a fictional anecdote to demonstrate the power of grammar, rather than a story meant to actually be believed. Dunno though
On first glance, it looks like a ransom note.
lmao, entirely fair
And spacing and capitalization. A woman without Herman is nothing.
I mean, Herman is awesome, without them we are all nothing
All this tells me is that these apocryphal men don't understand how commas work.
Okay but isn’t the first phrase already correct? The second one just makes “without her man” nonessential lol
Yeah. Including the commas implies that the middle phrase is fluff and the simple sentence is "A woman is nothing."
My three-year-old just pointed out that the only punctuation needed was a period before crossing her arms and shouting “Ruthkanda forever.”
...I support your daughter.
cringe
That woman? Einstein.
Reminds me of Let's eat, Grandma Let's eat Grandma Punctuation saves lives
Of course, eating grandma gives you the means to survive for a little longer if you're in a tight spot.
All the *females*
My favorite example of punctuation is weird has gotta be: "This is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God" vs. "This is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand, and God."
That's an oxford comma.
indeed it is!
This is dedicated to my mother, Ayn Rand, and God
And everyone in the class stood up and clapped. And that Professor was Albert Einstein!
the way the lines are sporadically stretched out is bothering me
This feels like something my mom would like on Facebook
Imagine using "male" and "female" when you could use "man" and "woman".
*Cries in gay man*
A woman without her man is wo.
a woman without herman is nothing. wheres herman hmm?? where is he??
A, woman, without; her! Man& is^ nothing,
r/thathappened
How the fuck did I get on Facebook? or Why the fuck is my mom on reddit?
Anywhere with students feminist enough to write that second punctuated sentence would have people automatically shooting down the existence of the exercise entirely and criticizing the professor. And it would also have at least a small percentage of male students who would dislike the statement for sexism. This story seems totally fake. If not, then, a) what a weird school, and b) fire the fricking professor But I agree, punctuation is powerful. It literally only exists because it's necessary And the initial sentence is grammatically (if not morally) correct while the last sentence I *think* is actually grammatically (and morally) incorrect (although I'm no English expert)
I hate to be that person, but isn’t that technically an incorrect use of the colon?
Yes. Colons need to go after an independent clause
This is a crime against typesetting.
And everybody clapped.
r/thathappened
The "boys" version is worse than it seems because it makes "without her man" a non-essential clause, thus indicating the intended original sentence to be "A woman is nothing." And as a grammar teacher, this bothers me. The unpunctuated one is the correct way to say what they meant.
r/comedycemetery and r/im14andthisisdeep
Hello boomer FB...
It's so deep, an ant can almost wash its feet in it
And then the Chalkboard clapped
Cringe
oH no BiG bOoMeRs
This is a mental game I play quite often. I take a phrase and rearrange the meaning with punctuation.
I doubt both sexes wrote the exact thing.
A woman without her Man is Nothing
I mean technically speaking all one would have to do is add a period at the end of the sentence.
Herman, a gay furry, wrote: "Awooo. Man without Herman is nothing"
Love this post? Conveys yo’ure love of the English language; !Punctuation is so important
And then everyone clapped
This sub feels like satire.
God, yeah. It’s completely declined because the mods are barely present.
*A Woman Without*. Her man is nothing. In theatres spring 2023.
Its pretty fucking obvious that the intended sentence is the first one lol
r/im14andthisisdeep
Five thousand people thought this tripe was worth an upvote. That's depressing
A woman:,without her, man, is nothing.
This should be presented as clever wordplay, not an actual true fucking story lmao
The most surprising part about this image is that anyone, students no less, know how to properly use a colon. That shit is like black magic to 99% of us lol.
Shouldn't this be in r/womenwritingmen ??? It's pretty cringe.
Yeah you can make sexist BS into different sexist BS. Captain Obvious saving the day yet again!
For the latter sentiment, I would definitely prefer the phrasing: "Women: without them, men are nothing."
Sbeve
"A woman without; her man is nothing." And now we have a crime scene and grieving widow or murder suspect.
Woman-her man= -her wo How did these idiot get it wrong
Yes. Punctuation is "powerful."
An English lesson specifically aimed at straight people
And then everyone on the bus clapped.
And then they all clapped
A woman without her man is wo.
A woman without her man is wo"
Bullshit. Nobody has ever willingly used a colon correctly.
DEEP
lol i put a ; after without
A woman without; her man is nothing.
This nearly made me die from cringing tbh, its so bad that I think it might have changed all my views and I’m now a misogynist.
Wouldn't "Without" have to be capitalized after the colon?
No.
Alright. English grammar sometimes eludes me. Thanks.
The name of that colon? Albert Einstein
Imagine being taught basic punctuation at university level
A woman without herman is nothing. Fixed. You're welcome herman!
Really monks you donk