Kill him not.
By dave
@dave121495 (1294)
Philippines
September 27, 2018 5:12pm CST
This is just a story about my latter teacher thought as about. He said that a single period could kill a person.
So the story goes about a judge giving an instruction for the executioner to the death row inmate. Back in the day they just use telegram to send signals if they would or woud'nt want to kill a death row inmate. The sentence wrote by the judge was this "Kill him. Not let him go." But the judge meant to write "Kill him not. Let him go." See the difference?
And at the end of the story the death row inmate was really killed by the executioner instead of letting him go. The moral lesson of the story is that a single period could end someones life, so be responsible in what you are going to say or what are you going to put in your sentences.
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@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
28 Sep 18
The judge could write Don't Execute Him he he
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
28 Sep 18
@dave121495 We all make errors. My problem is typos. Lol!
@dave121495 (1294)
• Philippines
28 Sep 18
You bet it is. I always tend to be sloppy when it comes to writing, I need to be careful next time.
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@rsa101 (40976)
• Philippines
28 Sep 18
Words does have a profound effect when especially when you jumbled and mixed the punctuation it delivers a different message to the receiver. The more in your story that a crucial decision was received by the executioner. That is how extreme the situation is.
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@dave121495 (1294)
• Philippines
28 Sep 18
Better be wary, and keen when it comes to sentence construction.
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
28 Sep 18
This is rather similar to the story of the Russian Tsarina who supposedly came across a document, signed by her husband the Tsar, that referred to a political prisoner. It read "Pardon impossible, to send to Siberia". She rubbed out the comma and re-inserted it so that the line now read "Pardon, impossible to send to Siberia". But is it true? And is your story true?
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