Posted on 08/18/2024 10:24:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Introduction
0:10 The space between words
1:34 What is punctuation?
2:04 The first punctuation
2:54 Period/full (.) stop & comma (,)
5:11 Colon (:) & semicolon (;)
6:57 NordVPN
7:55 Question mark (?)
10:12 Exclamation mark/point (!)
11:47 Quotation marks (")
13:50 Brackets (())
14:57 Dash (–) & hyphen (-)
16:00 Apostrophe (')
17:28 Ellipsis (...)
18:40 MERCH!Where does punctuation come from?! | 18:55
RobWords | 538K subscribers | 144,436 views | August 17, 2024
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As a technical writer, a copy of “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation” is an essential part of my personal library.
Dangling modifier, much?
< snicker! >
All in good fun, Herr Kollege!
Regards,
After an operation in 2017, I now have a semicolon.
But you still have your original asterisk?.................
I continued to do so when I posted on the web in the 1990s.
I was later told it was not necessary to put two spaces after every sentence on the web.
Kurt Vonnegut hated semicolons. He said they were pretentious and unnecessary. Every semicolon could be replaced either by a comma, or by making it two sentences.
Yes, thankfully. I’ve never had a period, though.
By an odd coincidence, I always thought that Kurt Vonnegut was pretentious and unnecessary.
Sometimes a semicolon is the right punctuation to use. Not often, but once in a while.
https://mashable.com/article/oxford-comma-oakhurst-dairy-5-million-dollar-settlement
Me too.
November 2017/
March 2017 for me. Everything healed fast and still works fine, and I hope it was the same for you.
I always ask for a discount on colonoscopies since then, no luck so far.
Two spaces after the period is a holdover from typewriters with their evenly spaced characters. Some computer fonts such as Courier also have even spacing.
Modern software has kerning which spaces characters proportionally, thus making a single space after a period more distinct and precluding the need for two spaces.
Free Republic holds a place in U.S. history related to such kerning. Freeper Buckhead exposed CBS' Dan Rather's fraudulent Texas National Guard documents for then-presidential candidate George Bush. Buckhead identified within minutes that the documents were a fraud because the IBM typewriter at the time didn't have kerning yet Dan Rather's documents did.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3347939/posts
On a related note, it would be nice if Free Republic switched the default font from Times New Roman to a sans serif font such as Aptos, Arial, Calibri, Tahoma, etc. because it's read on a screen, not paper.
Two spaces after period.
I still use them and think they make reading much easier.
TBY: thanks for reminding us of Buckhead & the Dan Rather scandal. That was heartwarming.
Free Republic requires ;’s
(use semi-colons to separate multiple recipients)
You may be a little too! Excited!
Because I use little doodads to process browser buffers, I’ve slipped into using single spaces all the time, but I used to be a two-spacer after a period at the end of sentence. And I’ve had people complain about it online, because they have some kind of OCD thing going on.
LOL!
This is fascinating. Thanks for posting.
And William Faulkner tended to use punctuation in ALL THE WRONG DAMNED PLACES.
(same with upper case letters - thanks bill)
I’ve always been happy with my Oxford commas, analogous to my comment about two-spacing (above).
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