Today is National Punctuation Day!

evenstr · Post by **evenstr** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:48 pm

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

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:50 pm

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

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

djm

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:02 pm

djm wrote:sometimesithinkithastodowiththerebeingnoteacheraround
butwhenyoustoptorealizejusthowdifficultitisforanyonetoread
what'sbeenwrittenitbecomesobviousthattherealproblemislack
ofconcernforthereadersandifyoucan'tbebothteredaboutyour
readersthenwhyshouldtheybebotheredwithyouorwhatyou've
written

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

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

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:12 pm

zackly

djm

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:18 pm

mhigt az whell toruhgh slpelnig ouwt da wniodw two

--Zhahmesh

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:28 pm

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

--James

you got that right. i often have to proof stuff that has one ( and one ].

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:39 pm

The one and only Victor Borge on punctuation...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-buiOOwXatM

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:44 pm

djm wrote:sometimesithinkithastodowiththerebeingnoteacheraround
butwhenyoustoptorealizejusthowdifficultitisforanyonetoread
what'sbeenwrittenitbecomesobviousthattherealproblemislack
ofconcernforthereadersandifyoucan'tbebothteredaboutyour
readersthenwhyshouldtheybebotheredwithyouorwhatyou've
written

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

djm

It's only difficult for you because you're not used to it. People in Roman times read and wrote that way just fine. It's a matter of culture, of what you're used to (or not).

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:46 pm

Cranberry wrote:
djm wrote:sometimesithinkithastodowiththerebeingnoteacheraround
butwhenyoustoptorealizejusthowdifficultitisforanyonetoread
what'sbeenwrittenitbecomesobviousthattherealproblemislack
ofconcernforthereadersandifyoucan'tbebothteredaboutyour
readersthenwhyshouldtheybebotheredwithyouorwhatyou've
written

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

djm
It's only difficult for you because you're not used to it. People in Roman times read and wrote that way just fine. It's a matter of culture, of what you're used to (or not).

It is true that spaces were not used between words in Roman times, but then how do you account for the fact that all (I believe) the languages that evolved from Latin do use spaces now?

Post by **Nanohedron** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:15 pm

Cynth wrote:
Cranberry wrote:
djm wrote:sometimesithinkithastodowiththerebeingnoteacheraround
butwhenyoustoptorealizejusthowdifficultitisforanyonetoread
what'sbeenwrittenitbecomesobviousthattherealproblemislack
ofconcernforthereadersandifyoucan'tbebothteredaboutyour
readersthenwhyshouldtheybebotheredwithyouorwhatyou've
written

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

djm
It's only difficult for you because you're not used to it. People in Roman times read and wrote that way just fine. It's a matter of culture, of what you're used to (or not).
It is true that spaces were not used between words in Roman times, but then how do you account for the fact that all (I believe) the languages that evolved from Latin do use spaces now?

Everybody wised up.

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:05 am

Yeah. Look what happened to the Romans. Serves then right.

djm

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:23 am

Nanohedron wrote:
Cynth wrote:
Cranberry wrote: It's only difficult for you because you're not used to it. People in Roman times read and wrote that way just fine. It's a matter of culture, of what you're used to (or not).
It is true that spaces were not used between words in Roman times, but then how do you account for the fact that all (I believe) the languages that evolved from Latin do use spaces now?
Everybody wised up.

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:42 am

Thank goodness that day is over; I was afraid that some one was going to
start passing around the Official Meat-Loaf-of-National-Punctuation-Day@

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:06 am

That looks like a ....

djm

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:21 am

When I was a kid, I used to communicate with morse code with my home-made amateur radio. We had a symbol that acted like a punctuation mark. The symbol was dah dit dit dit dah. We used it for any occasion when we didn't have anything to say at the moment but we still wanted to hold the band space and let listeners know that we were still there. Being somewhat of a minimalist, I tended to use it quite a bit. Is there any comparable word or symbol in the English language? Is this what the president of the USA is doing when he says "duh" during the answer to a question from the press?