Proper Punctuation is Power

Mrs. Elder,  my 1974 college English professor,  encouraged me to write better. On the first day of English 201 at Montgomery College,  she started class by writing these words  on the blackboard:

"A woman without her man is nothing"

Our  in-class writing assignment was "to punctuate it correctly".

Most the males in the class wrote: "A woman, without her man, is nothing."

All the females in the class wrote: "A woman: without her, man is nothing."

True story!