Posted on 09/27/2010 9:42:37 AM PDT by earlJam
Sept. 24, 2010
Happy National Punctuation Day!
Sept. 24 Is the Day to Celebrate Often Underappreciated and Misused Punctuation Marks
(CBS) Pay special attention when you write today as you end sentences, ask a question or share something in excitement. Sept. 24 is National Punctuation Day, so celebrate each time you use a punctuation mark!
Often underappreciated, misused and misunderstood, punctuation marks are an integral part of any language. They add emotion and can change the entire meaning of a sentence. When used incorrectly, sentences look just plain ugly to anybody with the eye to spot errors. Unfortunately, many people don't have that eye.
Frustrated by the large amount of mistakes he noticed in the newspaper, newsletter publisher and former reporter Jeff Rubin decided to start the holiday in honor of frequently overlooked punctuation marks.
"I would sit at the kitchen table with my red Sharpie ... screaming obscenities, which would upset my wife," Rubin told CNN. "She encouraged me to find another outlet for my aggravation."
So Rubin decided to start National Punctuation Day, which was born in 2004 when he secured a listing in the "Chase's Calendar of Events" reference book. 2010 marks the holiday's seventh year.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Elaine: Well, I was just curious why you didn’t use an exclamation point?
Jake: What are you talking about?
Elaine: See, right here you wrote “Myra had the baby”, but you didn’t use an exclamation point.
Jake: So?
Elaine: So, it’s nothing. Forget it, forget it, I just find it curious.
Jake: What’s so curious about it?
Elaine: Well, I mean if one of your close friends had a baby and I left you a message about it, I would use an exclamation point.
Jake: Well, maybe I don’t use my exclamation points as haphazardly as you do.
Elaine: You don’t think that someone having a baby warrants an exclamation point.
Jake: Hey, I just chalked down the message. I didn’t know I was required to capture the mood of each caller.
Elaine: I just thought you would be a little more excited about a friend of mine having a baby.
Jake: Ok, I’m excited. I just don’t happen to like exclamation points.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This! is! great!! news! because! many!!! here! on! FR!!!!!! LOVE! exclamation! points!!!
In honor of National Punctuation Day
Victor Borge - Phonetic Punctuation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUm787cz460
There’s three things I hate about punctuation; commas, semicolons! and periods:
:)
Ha! That scene was my first thought.
It is also National Grammar Police Day, National Spelling Police Day and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Day!!!!
:) Just teasing.
Elaine: And one more thing, you really think we need the exclamation point? Because, it’s not “Top of the Muffin *TO YOU!!!*”
Mr. Lippman: No. No. It is.
Hmmmm, this, sounds, important!!!!
It’s a shame these same folks didn’t make a peep about MIA-POW day....
They said they would “Never Forget”, but they did.
Yeah. Those days are almost as bad as the Already Posted Here Days we have sometimes around here.
:)
Better grammar: "the large number of mistakes...."
Princess Leia
@(*-*)@
approves this comment.
Ping! {cough! cough!}
Period.
-PJ
And we won’t even bring up its and it’s.
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