Barney the bandicoot,eats roots,shoots and leaves.
In Australia,the word "root" is interchangeable with the word "fuck"
This can be a problem when young thing sports reporters use American English,
and say comments like: "The entire Nation is rooting for our Olympic team"
It was hilarious in the late 50s and early 60s when Chrysler Australia was in
partnership with the British Rootes Automotive group.
On the heater blank off plate on the firewall there was a large decal,
"Chrysler Rootes Australia", a lot of Australians got a good laugh out of that!
I'm a grammar stickler, and one year my daughter bought me a plaque that said, "Let's eat, Grandma. Let's eat Grandma. Commas matter."
As an English teacher I'm stickler for grammar too, which is why this post annoys me too. It's not a punctuation difference it's a linguistical one.
You may be an English teacher, but clearly not a linguist!
I am a linguist, and I can tell you: you are correct, correct, and incorrect.
It's not a punctuation difference... correct.
It's a linguistic (or linguistical, if you're a brit) difference.... correct.
But ALL differences to do with language are LINGUISTIC, whether its orthography (punctuation), syntactic, morphological, lexical, or what have you.
So even if it WAS a punctuation difference, it would still be a linguistic difference, so..... (incorrect).
In this case, it is a morphological/lexical/grammatical difference.
Morphological difference:
Your (possessive pronoun - one morpheme) vs. you're (contraction of 'you are' - two morphemes, second one being a conjugation of the verb (to be)).
Lexical difference:
Your = possessive pronoun (2nd person singular) - indicates the object is possessed by the person represented by the pronoun
vs. you're = pronoun (2nd person singular) + verb (to be) - indicates that the person represented by the pronoun is (something).
Grammar difference:
The former is a word, and the latter is a phrase.
For my money, the better slogan would have been :
"Grammar matters" because this is essentially a grammatical difference not a punctuation (orthographic) one.
This was just beautiful!
Linguistanon....
Eats, leaves and shoots - book on this point. (A Panda eats leaves and shoots)
Barney the bandicoot,eats roots,shoots and leaves.
In Australia,the word "root" is interchangeable with the word "fuck"
This can be a problem when young thing sports reporters use American English, and say comments like: "The entire Nation is rooting for our Olympic team"
It was hilarious in the late 50s and early 60s when Chrysler Australia was in partnership with the British Rootes Automotive group.
On the heater blank off plate on the firewall there was a large decal,
"Chrysler Rootes Australia", a lot of Australians got a good laugh out of that!