Clever. Punctuation!

I saw this posted on a blackboard as a test question for a class titled Visual Communication. An English professor wrote the words: 'A woman without her man is nothing' then asked his students to punctuate it correctly. All 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.' Explain. I don't know who thought of that test question, but I think it's clever. Punctuation is. Powerfu!

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