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soothsayer

(38,601 posts) Fri May 21, 2021, 04:48 PM May 2021

Reassuring 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 OP

I get it Laurelin May 2021 #1

You're right Sanity Claws May 2021 #2

Yeah I almost added parens that made it clearer soothsayer May 2021 #8

CDC blew it. sheshe2 May 2021 #3

September? n/t rzemanfl May 2021 #5

Sorry... sheshe2 May 2021 #6

They are easy holidays to confuse. n/t rzemanfl May 2021 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author sheshe2 May 2021 #4

Laurelin

(897 posts)

1. I get it

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Fri May 21, 2021, 04:54 PM

May 2021

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

(22,413 posts)

2. You're right

Reply to Laurelin (Reply #1)

Fri May 21, 2021, 05:03 PM

May 2021

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

Reply to Laurelin (Reply #1)

Fri May 21, 2021, 06:15 PM

May 2021

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.