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Chuck Buckner
 24 Sep 2011, 23:03 #130787 Reply To Post
Quote: PERRY, Saturday, 24 Sep 2011 21:45
Quote: Chuck Buckner, Saturday, 24 Sep 2011 20:14
one way to avoid using punctuation marks incorrectly is to not use any


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Peridote
 25 Sep 2011, 02:30 #130791 Reply To Post
Here's my contribution to National Punctuation Day - I got this in a review ...

Quote:
Dear Peridote

I am reviewin your story from a phone. Pls pardon the missing punctuation marks.


Doesn't explain the spelling though.


Quote: papa stas, Saturday, 24 Sep 2011 18:22
' [] ; , - ... ! () ? " ; .

apostrophe, brackets, colon, comma, dash, ellipsis, exclamation point, hyphen, parentheses, question mark, quotation mark, semicolon, and period.

papa
stas (am I missing something)


Esteemed papa - yes you are. The third one is another SEMI colon, not a COLON : as you listed. Don't leave this serious little guy out. And isn't a hyphen just a dash with no spaces on either side?



This post was last edited by Peridote, 25 Sep 2011, 03:28
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Chuck Buckner
 25 Sep 2011, 03:27 #130792 Reply To Post
Quote: Peridote, Sunday, 25 Sep 2011 02:30
Here's my contribution to National Punctuation Day - I got this in a review ...

Quote:
Dear Peridote

I am reviewin your story from a phone. Pls pardon the missing punctuation marks.


Doesn't explain the spelling though.



They were probable operating a motor vehicle at the same time.
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Peridote
 25 Sep 2011, 03:37 #130793 Reply To Post
Quote: Chuck Buckner, Sunday, 25 Sep 2011 03:27
Quote: Peridote, Sunday, 25 Sep 2011 02:30
Here's my contributio=2]n to National Punctuation Day - I got this in a review ...

Quote:
Dear Peridote

I am reviewin your story from a phone. Pls pardon the missing punctuation marks.


Doesn't explain the spelling though.



They were probable operating a motor vehicle at the same time.


Also the way they might have read my story ... is YWO an app?

Don't worry if the world's coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia ...
PERRY
 25 Sep 2011, 05:17 #130794 Reply To Post
Frank Skinner brought up a pertinent gripe on QI this week, complaining that one had to hit both the shift key and the target key in order to get a colon, but that the default was a semi-colon. He raised the question that since the colon was clearly higher ranking, the other being only a 'semi', it should have preferential treatment on the keyboard.

He found himself, apparently, overusing dashes (elans?) rather than "going around the houses" [trans. holding two keys down simultaneously].

While facetious, it does beg the question why '#' gets a default position on the board while ':' does not, considering the comparative frequency of use.

While we're at it, why "comparative" while the verb is compare and the noun comparison?

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