What creature would scare you the most if you were scuba diving?
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. . .here are my thoughts.
What creature would scare you the most if you were scuba diving?
I’m told those clever Brits call that little dot at the end of a sentence—the one we in the States call a “period”—a “full stop.” I can see both benefits and drawbacks of that nomenclature. While “full stop” consists of nine characters to only the six of “period,” the longer phrase has one fewer syllable. And what does “period” mean anyway? At least “full stop” tells us exactly what we’re supposed to do—take a break before moving to the next sentence. By that thought process, perhaps the Europeans should call the comma a “partial halt,” or “quick breather.” In the States, we also use “period” as a term for menstruation. Hopefully they don’t call menstruation a “full stop” in British English. Confusion would reign! They’d be referencing a specific portion of an active menstrual cycle, yet Americans might rightfully believe “full stop” meant menopause or postmenopause. Would that mean menopause in British English would be called a “full stop-full stop”? Or perhaps “full stop squared”? Regardless, at certain ocean depths, we can agree the scariest creature to scuba dive with is any actively bleeding human.