Browsing All posts tagged under »punctuation«

Keep Your Pants On

February 18, 2014 by

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I don’t think the comma is unnecessary. I do think we could use less of them. Maybe a lot less. A bunch of them seem there for convention rather than because they affect comprehension. Punctuation should only exist to facilitate understanding. I think I’m feeling this issue a little more than is totally reasonable right […]

Snark With Me (You Know You Want To)

January 3, 2012 by

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Have you ever written something in an email or online and wished there was a way to make it perfectly clear that you were being sarcastic? It possibly says something about how close friends I am with sarcasm that I actually pine for a way to do this. And the thing is, there’s actually a punctuation […]