Today is National Punctuation Day!

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Today is National Punctuation Day!

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

http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/
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For which nation
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seems to be us...

ah, U. S.

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

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?:;#@&%!$*#$^*.
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Did anyone see the exa-
mples, that were given at
the website which was lis-
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e e cumings meets National Punctuation Day. a mad dash for a period, then a quote or two untilde lapse into a comma
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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/
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Oh dear, I guess quotation marks, hmmm------well, are they punctuation?
I guess I'd better go study that Punctuation Day website better. :lol:
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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...
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Period
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Eh. Eh? Eh!
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Raleigh 753 circa 1979
sounda like circa beat the crap outa raleigh to me

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i don't know why people dont punctuate online

oh well

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Flyingcursor wrote: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...
Shirley!!!


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peeplj wrote:i don't know why people dont punctuate online
Laziness. Plus, there's no teacher to whack you with a ruler.
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