Is punctuation all that important?
Logic
Level
1
Is it possible to find a string of seven English words that, when punctuated two different ways to make a grammatical and meaningful sentence, has two essentially opposite meanings?
Yes
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1 solution
Yes. Consider the following string of seven words:
A woman without her man is nothing
It can be punctuated like this:
A woman, without her man, is nothing.
Or it can be punctuated like this:
A woman: without her, man is nothing.