Your company’s language translations must be proofread in order to convey a positive corporate image.
It’s or its? CDs or CD’s? 1900s or 1900’s? Punctuation does appear to be in a state of confusion. And don’t think the British have written language figured out better than Americans. A 2003 British bestseller, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, bemoaned the state of commas, apostrophes and quotation marks in the U.K. The book later became a stateside commercial success.
The volume’s title derives from the following joke about bad punctuation:
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
“Why?” asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
“Well, I’m a panda,” he says, at the door. “Look it up.”
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. “Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.”
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