Sharing the best of humanity with the world, one story at a time.My Gen Z kids see periods in my texts as 'aggressive.' Nope. They're really not.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/periods-in-texts-aggressive-gen-z-vs-gen-x-ex1
Writers Digest (unofficial)10 Underused Punctuation Marks That Are Worth Using https://www.writersdigest.com/10-underused-punctuation-marks-that-are-worth-using #WriteBetterNonfiction #WriteBetterFiction #PunctuationMarks #GrammarRules #punctuation #Grammar #grammar
The Whore of Blahbylon
Joe VilasWho was it I was discussing punctuation with on here? I think I know, but I'm not confident enough to tag them. Anyway, via my wife, the undergrad English major: https://www.thoughtco.com/percontation-mark-punctuation-1691603 #typography #punctuation #writing
***Dave Hill ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ฑ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธIn an effort to post something cheerful and non-screechy today ... here's my new favorite Christmas-themed video, via my son (who knows me too well).
Where Is The Comma In "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" Supposed To Go?
Simon Roy Hughes ๐ง โฌโฌโฌโOne dataset shows semicolon usage dropped from one every 90 words in 1781 to one every 390 words today.โ
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/17/1849246/english-has-become-easier-to-read
I'm doing my bit to keep the number of words per #semicolon as low as possible; are you doing yours?
English Has Become Easier To Read - Slashdot
The conventional wisdom that English prose has gotten easier to read because sentences have gotten shorter is wrong, according to a new analysis published in Works in Progress by writer and Mercatus Center research fellow Henry Oliver. The real transformation happened centuries ago in the 1500s and ...
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"in 1905, #Moscow printers demanded to be paid for setting not only letters but also #punctuation marks, which required the same action and the same amount of time as the alphabet. What is known as the #CommaStrike spread popular #boycott throughout the country, leading to the #czar ceding #Russia its first constitution. A #comma can, more or less, get the blood boiling."
THE STRIKE AND THE REVOLUTION: A Comparative Study of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and 1953 and 1956 Revolts in Eastern Germany, Russia, Poland and Hungary on JSTOR
Feliks Gross, THE STRIKE AND THE REVOLUTION: A Comparative Study of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and 1953 and 1956 Revolts in Eastern Germany, Russia, Poland and Hungary, Il Politico, Vol. 22, No. 2 (SETTEMBRE 1957), pp. 510-518
16 forgotten punctuation marks that we should definitely bring back
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/16-rare-and-forgotten-punctuation-marks
Sue is Writing Solarpunk ๐๐ฑ#2 A Dash of Style
You might think it's crazy to gift a book on #punctuation to your favorite writer, but I'm telling you, they will love you for it. Lukeman's book is concise, funny as heck, and incredibly useful.
C.Even Weird Al knows quotation marks are not for emphasis ... ๐คฆ
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