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What is punctuation’s job? #Cool
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Writers’ Favorite Punctuation Marks
R.L. Stine, renowned kid terrifier and author of the upcoming adult horror novel Red Rain: ”When a moment of true horror arises in a novel, there’s no better punctuation than a —.”
Deadspin, Gawker, and GQ’s Drew Magary, author of the recent novel The Postmortal: ”I’m a big fan of the period, because it means that I can take a little breather. Michael Chabon wrote a novel recently that had a 12-page sentence. Why would you do that to a reader? What kind of asshole doesn’t give the reader a break once in a while? Get me to the period so that I can take a moment to digest and go eat a Pop Tart or something. Withholding that period from me is a real dick move. I also like parentheses because I can do whatever the hell I want inside of them. Commas are the worst because eight billion people have eight billion different ideas about where they’re supposed to go.”
The Hairpin’s Edith Zimmerman says, ”My favorite is this one: t(*-*t),” learned from another emoticon-lover, Grantland’s David Cho. “It’s a little dude making two middle fingers,” she explained.
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Happy National Punctuation Day, everybody. What’s your favorite punctuation mark?
I love semi-colons more than anyone should. And I overuse dashes, too.
I’m a fan of semicolons and interrobangs.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mav89shDJ21qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Writers’ Favorite Punctuation Marks
R.L. Stine, renowned kid terrifier and author of the upcoming adult horror novel Red Rain: ”When a moment of true horror arises in a novel, there’s no better punctuation than a —.”
Deadspin, Gawker, and GQ’s Drew Magary, author of the recent novel The Postmortal: ”I’m a big fan of the period, because it means that I can take a little breather. Michael Chabon wrote a novel recently that had a 12-page sentence. Why would you do that to a reader? What kind of asshole doesn’t give the reader a break once in a while? Get me to the period so that I can take a moment to digest and go eat a Pop Tart or something. Withholding that period from me is a real dick move. I also like parentheses because I can do whatever the hell I want inside of them. Commas are the worst because eight billion people have eight billion different ideas about where they’re supposed to go.”
The Hairpin’s Edith Zimmerman says, ”My favorite is this one: t(*-*t),” learned from another emoticon-lover, Grantland’s David Cho. “It’s a little dude making two middle fingers,” she explained.
Read more. [Image: Flickr/Horia Varlan]
Happy National Punctuation Day, everybody. What’s your favorite punctuation mark?
I love semi-colons more than anyone should. And I overuse dashes, too.
I’m a fan of semicolons and interrobangs.
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“RESPECT PUNCTUATION” posters.
To see the entire set of punctuation posters, visit tinyowlstudios.
LOVE.
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The Exclamation Comma. “Just because you’re excited about something doesn’t mean you have to end the sentence.”
That’s true.
5 simple comma rules to live by
(Worth reading the comments section too)
I’m going to try to be as clear as I can here.
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NOT EVER SHOULD YOU SEPARATE THE SUBJECT AND PREDICATE OF A SENTENCE WITH A COMMA.
I can see where you might think that this is a good idea when you’re “feeling” commas because a lot of people pause between the subject and the predicate. However, it’s not a good thing to do. It makes no sense at all and shows a misunderstanding of how commas work.
