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6MINETING ENGLISH From bbclearningenglish.com Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I'm Alice.
And I'm Neil.
So, Neil, you texted me earlier and didn't put a full stop at the end.
You're right, I never use full stops in text, they're much too stuffy or formal.
Texting is like conversation, you don't need lots of punctuation.
Well, punctuation is the subject of today's show.
And I know I'm a bit of a stickler about this,
but I think you're letting the standards of written English language slip.
A stickler is someone who insists on a certain way of doing a particular thing.
Surely you aren't such a stickler for punctuation rules that you want to stop the evolution of English, Alice?
No, of course not, but I am a stickler when people don't follow the rules of punctuation.
Because this makes written text ambiguous or difficult to understand.
Ambiguous means when something has two or more meanings.
Can you give me some examples of punctuation making text easier to understand?
Alright then, here you are.
Let's eat grammar.
Er, it brings to mind the children's story, Little Red Riding Hood,
about a girl, her grandmother and a hungry wolf.