Miss Tumnus

Pozdravlyayu so d'nyom rozhdeniya!--which is in Russian, meaning the same as the previous posts.

happy birthday!!!!!!!!

Happy birthday!!!

Hey Miss Tumnus

God's peace be with you, Miss Tumnus! (Not that I'm FAUN-ing on you or anything.)

The discussion we had recently about small details in writing reminds me of something funny from an English class I had in grade school. (Yes, they had grade schools back in my Flintstone era, going AT LEAST as high as fourth grade!) There was a humorous lesson on how a change in punctuation marks could completely change the meaning of a sentence. Here are the alternate versions that were given of the SAME set of words:

* "The Indians," said Mary, "scalped General Custer."

* The Indians said: "_Mary_ scalped General Custer!"