Talk:Lynne Truss

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Even pandas have to take a pee.

On the wall of a dead-end alley:

路不通行不得在此小便

The word for word translation:

road not through walk not possible at here pee

The original had no punctuation. Here are 2 ways the panda could read this.

1. Not a through road, don't pee here.

2. A dead end road, no through traffic, pee here.

Well, as a student of classical Chinese, I'd definitely have to go with the first translation. This is just instinct, of course, based on context. But you gotta love the lack of punctuation!The-dissonance-reports 19:04, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why I linked this to The Write Stuff[edit]

By putting in the link the The Write Stuff, I hope that I can prevent any one from accusing the article on the radio series of being an orphan. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:43, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Aesthetics[edit]

I confess, I'm not sure what aesthetics in language is, but "The book was inspired by a BBC Radio 4 show about punctuation, Cutting a Dash, which she hosted." ought to read "The book was inspired by a BBC Radio 4 programme about punctuation, Cutting a Dash, which she presented." 81.155.219.237 (talk) 16:15, 25 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really understand what this suggestion has to do with aesthetics, and not having heard the programme I don't know whether it was a panel show (on which she acted as 'host'), or more of a documentary (on which she was the 'presenter'). However, I certainly see no objection to this change, and will make it. Eric Pode lives (talk) 18:42, 25 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Where did she go to school?[edit]

Because elitism of the British public school system, and Oxbridge — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.196.246.128 (talk) 14:16, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

She went to the Tiffin Girls' School – a state grammar school. Already in the categories, but I've now added it to the text. Eric Pode lives (talk) 20:19, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]