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csbabe85 rated 13 months ago- That's us women for you -> a woman, undermined and outwitted her czar husband in such a clever way as to set a man free that he had condemned to death !!
By changing the position of a comma in a death sentence, she changed the orders to allow a man to be set free.
lol, I'm sure she could've convinced her husband that he's the one who crashed the truck into the garage :D LOL- That's us women for you -> a woman, undermined and outwitted her czar husband in such a clever way as to set a man free that he had condemned to death !!
- FAIRYUSER rated 14 months ago
- commas
- rxreed rated 14 months ago
- From the page: "On the bottom of the warrant the czar had written: 'Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia.' The czarina changed the punctuation so that her husband's instructions read: 'Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia.' The man was set free."
- HomeroB rated 17 months ago
- Grammar is your friend.
- RUMahale rated 17 months ago
- From the page: "# 13 Sayings of Woody Allen # 17 Pairs of Contradictory Proverbs # 23 Obscure and Obsolete Words # 33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names" All the four lists - rare but rich in literary value make interesting reading .
- dikonstrukt rated 19 months ago
- Grammar may one day kill you: "Czarina Maria Fyodorovna once saved the life of a man by transposing a single comma in a warrant signed by her husband, Alexander III, which exiled a criminal to imprisonment and death in Siberia. On the bottom of the warrant the czar had written: `Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia.' The czarina changed the punctuation so that her husband's instructions read: `Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia.' The man was set free."
- RossTaben rated 19 months ago
- Punctuation matters.
- insomnianiac rated 19 months ago
From the page:
"THE FATAL COMMA
Czarina Maria Fyodorovna once saved the life of a man by transposing
a single comma in a warrant signed by her husband, Alexander III,
which exiled a criminal to imprisonment & death in Siberia.
On the bottom of the warrant the Czar had written:
`Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia.'
The Czarina changed the punctuation so that her husband's instructions read:
`Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia.'
The man was set free."
- Xfish rated 19 months ago
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