altphoto comments on A coma in a sentence can make a huge difference. For example:

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"Let's eat, Bob." Has a completely different meaning from "Bob is in a coma"

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Coincidentally coma is the verb eat in Spanish conjugated in the command form to order someone to eat.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 3 points 3 months ago

That is likely the basis for the joke.

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