Hi All, I'm anxiously awaiting the answer to the "had, had, had" problem. It just makes my head hurt <G>. I sent a copy of ESL to my mother for Mother's Day and she's enjoying it very much. I also saw Ms. Truss on TV the other day and she was very funny. One question was about the history of punctuation and she said it came from musical notation and was first used in Greek plays. They had marks to tell the actor when to take a deep breath before a long speech (or a medium or small breath).
Also the book is being "adapted" into Swedish, Japanese and and other languages. Can't be translated for obvious reasons. So, wise lace chatters, please tell me where is the punctuation in Japanese? I don't recall seeing any punctuation but maybe I've only see the calligraphy and not much..Wait, I just got out my Japanese Battenberg lace book and I see commas, parantheses and periods (like little "o"s). Once again I missed something right in front of my eyes <G>. So I wait to hear if I got that information right or not. I love the wealth of knowledge here! And I hope I got all the punctuation right. I know, I know, too many !!!!! I do know that there is no period after Ms but I put one there anyway. Jane in Vermont, USA where we had another beautiful Spring day and the air is perfumed with lilacs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
