{"id":54,"date":"2006-07-08T19:47:53","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T03:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2006-07-09T09:11:57","modified_gmt":"2006-07-09T17:11:57","slug":"punctuation-and-dilbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Punctuation and Dilbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if Scott Adams knows why he&#8217;s getting extra e-mail about his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedmedia.com\/comics\/dilbert\/archive\/dilbert-20060704.html\">4 July 2006<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedmedia.com\/comics\/dilbert\/\">Dilbert<\/a>, but I do.  See, one of his characters told Dilbert that the &#8220;insane chick code of ethics&#8221; was influencing her behavior.  Now, you can be offended by that in lots of ways, but I guarantee that part of the problem is that Adams meant to write &#8220;insane-chick code of ethics.&#8221;  He means &#8220;the code of ethics imposed on (or generated by) insane chicks,&#8221; not &#8220;the code of ethics of all chicks, which is insane.&#8221;  The second one is what the phrase he wrote unambiguously means.  Really.  Ask <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/mouldering04.html#m04-l\">Lynne Truss<\/a>.  Unfortunately, it&#8217;s also offensive to more people the way he wrote it.  (If nothing else, he&#8217;s upset the grammarians.)<br \/>\nAnd while we&#8217;re at it, note that those are descriptions of what the phrases mean.  I&#8217;m not taking a position on the ethics of insane chicks, women, or any permutation thereof here.<\/p>\n<p>This is my current favorite punctuation example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if Scott Adams knows why he&#8217;s getting extra e-mail about his 4 July 2006 Dilbert, but I do. See, one of his characters told Dilbert that the &#8220;insane chick code of ethics&#8221; was influencing her behavior. Now, you can be offended by that in lots of ways, but I guarantee that part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}