Posted by Robert Hill on December 19, 2003 at 19:56:20 from 195.92.168.166 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: Radio Broadcasting - winging it-Eats, Shoots and Leaves posted by Robert Dilley on December 18, 2003 at 18:17:27:
I cannot find the reference now, but I remember reading of an author -- at least a couple of hundred years back I believe -- who published a book with no punctuation in the text; and then added several pages of various forms of punctuation at the end with the exhortation to the readers to add them to the text as they saw fit.
I remember reading that story. I think I can even remember what book I read it in, though sadly I can't find the book. I think it said that the "exhortation" took the form "Scatter these to taste".
The trouble is, I thought I remembered the story being told, not of somebody 200 years ago or more, but of George Bernard Shaw.
He was certainly famous as a reformer of spelling and punctuation, and advocated a phonetic alphabet and his own punctuation system, but whether the "scatter these to taste" story can really be true of him I'm not sure.