A grammarian end of the week treat!

Everything you ever needed to know about apostrophes!
https://kathybrysonblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/apostrophes/

#blogging #Writing #amwriting #writingtip #editing #publishing #punctuation #grammar

Saw "nonhabit-forming" in a book and wanted to parse it (nonsensically) as "forming of non-habit".

I wrote about these tricky hyphens once: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/non-life-threatening-unselfconscious-hyphens/

#punctuation #hyphens #semantics #writing #EnglishUsage

I Love the Em Dash—Too Bad If AI Does Too

I won’t abandon the controversial punctuation mark just to prove I’m human

by Mihika Agarwal (from the archives)

https://thewalrus.ca/i-love-the-em-dash-too-bad-if-ai-does-too/

#books #punctuation #typography

Title: P1: I learn chinese. About punctuation and Emacs [2023-09-24 Sun]
- (。) - 句号 jùhào - Period(Full stop). lit. 'Sentence Mark'
- 句 - sentence
- 号 - mark.
- ancient alternative: 兮 Xī
- (，) 逗号 DòuHào - comma, cannot be used for lists.
- (、) 頓号 dùnhào, 頓 - pause.
- (‧) 间隔号 Jiàn Gé Hào - Middle dot, separate characters in non-Han personal names
- (《…》, 〈…〉, ﹏﹏﹏ ) 书名号 Shū Míng Hào - titles of books,
films, and so on

⚰\n#chinese #mandarin #punctuation #emacs

Title: P0: I learn chinese. About punctuation and Emacs [2023-09-24 Sun]
That is how I insert chinese dot and comma:
(define-abbrev-table 'org-mode-abbrev-table
'( ('..' '。' nil)
(',,' '，' nil)))
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda ()
(local-set-key (kbd 'TAB') (lambda ()
(interactive)
(if (not (expand-abbrev))
(call-interactively 'org-cycle)())))

Main chinese punctuations:\n#chinese #mandarin #punctuation #emacs

We need the exclamation comma.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/punctuation-capitalization/say-hello-to-the-exclamation-comma-the-punctuation-mark-you-never-knew-you-needed/

#punctuation #writing #characters #grammar #words #exclamationcomma

@GramrgednAngel @junecasagrande

Thanks for the rec. Sounds great! Just preordered.

#Books #Editing #Writing #Punctuation

We should please do away with the hyphen in Wi-Fi. Same as we did with E-mail. And maybe capitalization, same as Internet.

Example: we use the internet to check email via wifi.

Please vote now (you don’t need a birth certificate + marriage license + state ID + social security card).

#WiFi #Internet #Grammar #Punctuation #HoldTheShiftKeyAndTheHyphen