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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReassuring tweet of the moment
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Jennifer Taub
@jentaub
📚 👓 ☕️
Random House
@randomhouse
The CDC says fully vaccinated people can still cancel plans to stay home and read.
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Reassuring tweet of the moment (Original Post)
soothsayer
May 2021
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Laurelin
(529 posts)1. I get it
But I feel Random House shouldn't have written such an ambiguous text. Maybe "... people can still cancel plans, and instead, stay home and read. "
Sanity Claws
(21,849 posts)2. You're right
Your punctuation and rewrite avoids the ambiguity.
Punctuation is important. There is big difference between "Let's eat Grandma," and Let's eat, Grandma!"
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)8. Yeah I almost added parens that made it clearer
But what the hay. I figured other reclusive folks like myself would get it.
Like:
The CDC says fully vaccinated people can still (choose to) cancel plans to stay home and read.
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)3. CDC blew it.
Last edited Fri May 21, 2021, 05:45 PM - Edit history (1)
Expect a surge 2 weeks after Memorial Day.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)5. September? n/t
meant Memorial Day.
24/7 mom care is frying my brain.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)7. They are easy holidays to confuse. n/t
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