Today is National Punctuation Day!

Today is National Punctuation Day! Considering recent comments, I thought you might be interested.

http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/

For which nation

seems to be us…

ah, U. S.

whatever!

!You know; the sad thing, about, punctuation…is almost: not many understand {or use} it correctly!

–James

?:;#@&%!$#$^.

“()”

Did anyone see the exa-
mples, that were given at
the website which was lis-
ted by the originator of the fir-
st post on this thread.

Ha. Those people need help

e e cumings meets National Punctuation Day. a mad dash for a period, then a quote or two untilde lapse into a comma

Here is a funny website I read about in the newspaper a few days ago.
The woman who started it collects instances of the improper use of quotation marks.
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/

Oh dear, I guess quotation marks, hmmm------well, are they punctuation?
I guess I’d better go study that Punctuation Day website better. :laughing:

i dont have the best puncuation… but i really cant stand it… when people neglect the shift key… and use ellipses after every malformed sentence…

Period

Eh. Eh? Eh!

Raleigh 753 circa 1979

sounda like circa beat the crap outa raleigh to me

:wink:

i don’t know why people dont punctuate online

oh well

–james

Shirley!!!


Laziness. Plus, there’s no teacher to whack you with a ruler.

It kind of makes we want to go buy Eats Shoots and Leaves.

sometimesithinkithastodowiththerebeingnoteacheraround
butwhenyoustoptorealizejusthowdifficultitisforanyonetoread
what’sbeenwrittenitbecomesobviousthattherealproblemislack
ofconcernforthereadersandifyoucan’tbebothteredaboutyour
readersthenwhyshouldtheybebotheredwithyouorwhatyou’ve
written

Gee, that was a lot harder to type than I imagined.

djm

I couldn’t be bothered to read it. What did it say?

zackly

djm

mhigt az whell toruhgh slpelnig ouwt da wniodw two

–Zhahmesh