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Yay! It's my favorite (but just by a narrow margin) holiday: National Punctuation Day!
Oh, but it would be so cool to devote this day to donating commas, periods, and (Yes!) even semi-colons to those on our humble forum that lack the economic means of purchasing their own.
It would also be neat to hear everyone's favorite symbol of punctuation, why they find that particular punctuation mark so enthralling (as if any punctuation mark could ever fail to be enthralling!); however please keep in mind that paragraphs (which are definitely not punctuation marks) are very important unto themselves.
My favorite punctuation mark is the parenthesis (as if anyone who has read my past posts couldn't have guessed that). I like them because you can slide them directly into the middle of sentence or even in between sentences. While the things I usually enclose in parenthesis would be more appropriate as footnotes, the reader is saved the inconvenience of having to look all the way down to the bottom of the page to read my somewhat irrelevant (but incredibly interesting) asides. Besides, half the stuff I put in parentheses don't even belong in footnotes, since it's usually just my train of thought taking off on some tangent (and it's always a bad sine when a person goes off on a tangent).
Pick your favorite punctuation mark: National Punctuation Day.
Strangely, I had no idea that there was a solar ellipsis scheduled for September 24 of this year, but then again...
Oh, but it would be so cool to devote this day to donating commas, periods, and (Yes!) even semi-colons to those on our humble forum that lack the economic means of purchasing their own.
It would also be neat to hear everyone's favorite symbol of punctuation, why they find that particular punctuation mark so enthralling (as if any punctuation mark could ever fail to be enthralling!); however please keep in mind that paragraphs (which are definitely not punctuation marks) are very important unto themselves.
My favorite punctuation mark is the parenthesis (as if anyone who has read my past posts couldn't have guessed that). I like them because you can slide them directly into the middle of sentence or even in between sentences. While the things I usually enclose in parenthesis would be more appropriate as footnotes, the reader is saved the inconvenience of having to look all the way down to the bottom of the page to read my somewhat irrelevant (but incredibly interesting) asides. Besides, half the stuff I put in parentheses don't even belong in footnotes, since it's usually just my train of thought taking off on some tangent (and it's always a bad sine when a person goes off on a tangent).
Pick your favorite punctuation mark: National Punctuation Day.
Strangely, I had no idea that there was a solar ellipsis scheduled for September 24 of this year, but then again...