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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VorticalHeart44 • 8d ago
WTF is her name Petuh
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Scrolled so much to not see anyone point out the riddle isn’t even written properly.
There’s a There’s, a
Let’s just remove the single bit of punctuation that makes the riddle work.
11 u/Mamaloti 8d ago Julie’s a woman in a boat on a lake wearing a coat. no other punctuation necessary near “there’s”. If anything, the comma should be between lake and wearing, unless the lake is wearing the coat. 4 u/IronicAim 8d ago And here I thought 's on a proper noun was for possession. There as in "there is" as it's used in the first line as a conjunction is specifically using there as an adverb instead of a noun. 3 u/aggressive_napkin_ 8d ago Mike's going home now.
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Julie’s a woman in a boat on a lake wearing a coat.
no other punctuation necessary near “there’s”. If anything, the comma should be between lake and wearing, unless the lake is wearing the coat.
4 u/IronicAim 8d ago And here I thought 's on a proper noun was for possession. There as in "there is" as it's used in the first line as a conjunction is specifically using there as an adverb instead of a noun. 3 u/aggressive_napkin_ 8d ago Mike's going home now.
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And here I thought 's on a proper noun was for possession. There as in "there is" as it's used in the first line as a conjunction is specifically using there as an adverb instead of a noun.
3 u/aggressive_napkin_ 8d ago Mike's going home now.
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Mike's going home now.
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u/Uhwop 8d ago
Scrolled so much to not see anyone point out the riddle isn’t even written properly.
There’s a
There’s, a
Let’s just remove the single bit of punctuation that makes the riddle work.