Or, the practical importance of punctuation, at PartiallyClips.
(Thanks, Songdog!)
Incidentally, I'm flying to California tomorrow, and for the first time I'm taking my laptop (having observed that others seem to do it without incident, and reassured by the answers to my AskMeFi question), so hopefully there will be at most a day's hiatus. But you never know, so I thought I'd mention it.
Posted by languagehat at March 24, 2006 03:05 PMY'know, if he were such a precisian as to change his plea on splitting an infinitive, he would have adhered to the which/that "rule" in his first sentence, too.
Posted by: John Cowan at March 24, 2006 05:35 PMStill, the title alone is such a wonderful pun.
Did you ever hear anything more about that legal threat from several months ago?
Posted by: zhoen at March 25, 2006 08:34 AMIt went away. Thanks for asking!
Posted by: language hat at March 25, 2006 08:52 AMNobody seems to have noticed that "invoice" is the wrong word. The guy who sent the dog would have received a "purchase order". He would, in turn, have sent the FBI an "invoice" in order to obtain payment.