“Spain wakes up!”
Despite doubts about the use of coma, a clear rule of this case mark is that the vocative or call should be marked with a comma. It's not, of course, a smallness or an optional option, because with or without a coma it radically changes meaning.
In recent weeks, one of the testimonies of those diving in the Spanish networks that are flying on the networks, the video camera collects an old man, shouting a crazy man, transcribed at the bottom of the screen: “Spain wakes up sons of slut!” because the old man who looks at the camera wanted to say “Spain is awakening, sasikume!”, evidently, but in the transcription, without a coma acquired another meaning: “Spain wakes up sons of whore!” So written, I agree with this man, because Spain has woken the puppies and, therefore, it is not a joke.
These pearls that detach the facades are, however, indicative and demonstrative of their human and cultural level, and although fascist aggression is not negligible, let us never lose humor; as we said some time ago, “revolution without humor, egg without yolk”.
The next step in the reflection of the fascists may be the so-called strike and it is appropriate to recall the historical anecdote of the Coma Strike.
Trotsky wrote from the Coma Strike: “A strike started by punctuation marks destroyed absolutism.” That's the brand!
In September 1905, editorial staff Ivan Sytin in Moscow were forced to go on strike to pay not only letters but also punctuation marks, i.e. commas and other punctuation marks in the payment by superiors. Until then the typographers were charged by letter, but the higher ones did not take into account the punctuation marks when awarding salaries, looking with indifference and contempt for the score. Although at first it seemed to be a shattering, the workers began the Coma Strike. Soon staff from other sectors and other cities joined the strikers, such as bakers, railway workers, lawyers, even Imperial Ballet dancers, both domino tokens and so on. Thus, in the absence of trains for the transport of raw materials, steelworks and textile factories also had to close, and soon all the workers, together with the strike, issued a general strike and all the citizens of Petrograd stopped working. The general strike forced the tsarist Nicholas II to publish the October Manifesto, in which he promised to make a Constitution for Russia. What happened next, we all know.
Anecdote was collected by Norwegian Bå Borch Michalsen in a recommended book that concludes: “The beginning of everything was a comma.”
To finish and highlight the importance of this score mark, writes Trotsky under the Coma Strike: “A strike started by punctuation marks destroyed absolutism.” That's the brand!
Josu Jiménez Maia, writer
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