stackyFACTSGrammar police used to have some serious bite to back up their pedantry.
Grammar police used to have some serious bite to back up their pedantry. In the 17th century, two prominent French writers, Charles-Claude Genest and an unnamed rival, got into a heated argument over a minor rule of syntax in a poem. Unable to agree on the punctuation, they did the only logical thing: drew swords and tried to kill each other. One was heavily wounded, proving that the rapier resolves debate faster than the pen.
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