Saturday, 25 October 2014

'Fun free' or 'Fun and free'?

I'm battling a dreadful cold and it's no fun... Talking about fun, I've just checked out some news on 'Dylan Thomas in Fitzrovia' pages and spotted this:
What a good example of syntactic ambiguity: 'Fun free and affordable activities'! Free from fun or free and fun? If free from fun, then ideal for the puritans! Just as well they are not expensive.  Who needs fun and pleasure after all? But jokes aside, it is so easy to make a mistake. And punctuation is a minefield. Even in the famous book: 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves:The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation': quite a few punctuation mistakes can be found.

There are so many events celebrating Dylan Thomas at the moment. And I am home with a cold...


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