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==CHAPTERS==0:00 Introduction0:10 The space between words1:34 What is punctuation?2:04 The first punctuation2:54 Period/full (.) stop & comma (,)5:11 Colon (:) & semicolon (;)6:57 NordVPN7:55 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?! | 18:55RobWords | 538K subscribers | 144,436 views | August 17, 2024

Golf Club Sign Here is an actual sign posted at a golf club in Scotland UK: 1. BACK STRAIGHT, KNEES BENT, FEET SHOULDER WIDTH APART. 2. FORM A LOOSE GRIP. 3. KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN! 4. STAY OUT OF THE WATER. 5. TRY NOT TO HIT ANYONE. 6. IF YOU ARE TAKING TOO LONG, LET OTHERS GO AHEAD OF YOU. 7. DON'T STAND DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF OTHERS. 8. QUIET PLEASE...WHILE OTHERS ARE PREPARING. 9. DON'T TAKE EXTRA STROKES. 10. WELL DONE.. NOW, FLUSH THE URINAL, GO OUTSIDE, AND TEE OFF! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Did I read that sign right? In an...

A class-action lawsuit about overtime pay for truck drivers hinged entirely on a debate that has bitterly divided friends, families and foes: The dreaded — or totally necessary — Oxford comma, perhaps the most polarizing of punctuation marks. What ensued in The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and in a 29-page court decision handed down on Monday, was an exercise in high-stakes grammar pedantry that could cost a dairy company in Portland, Me., an estimated $10 million.

Has anyone else noticed that the " and ' symbols that were plaguing our threads for so long are no longer present?Woo-Hoo, Good Job to John Robinson and the Free Republic computer fix-it nerds!

Did anyone else see it. Geraldo's such a punk I wish Eric would have clocked him.

Can I let you in on a secret? Typing two spaces after a period is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong. And yet people who use two spaces are everywhere, their ugly error crossing every social boundary of class, education, and taste.[snip] What galls me about two-spacers isn't just their numbers. It's their certainty that they're right. Over Thanksgiving dinner last year, I asked people what they considered to be the "correct" number of spaces between sentences. The diners included doctors, computer programmers, and other highly accomplished professionals. Everyone—everyone!—said it was proper to use two spaces. Some people admitted to...

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...

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Petition to demand Michael Steel replace Big Government Republican politicians with principled conservations leaders. Petition Scroll down on the right hand side to petition Heard Richard Viquerie on KSFO this morning on Lee Rogers program -Good conservative Web Site

When hang means, as it generally does, "to suspend," then hung is the correct past-tense and past participial form of the verb: "Yesterday, I hung a picture on the wall"; "I have hung many pictures on many walls." When hang means "to put to death by hanging," however, hanged is the correct past-tense and past participial form: "We hanged the horse-thieving varmint yesterday"; "We've hanged nigh unto forty horse thieves this year." Given that hanging has become a fairly infrequent means to a fairly infrequent end, you might think that this is an unimportant distinction. But, because of a colloquial...

"Plain Old Telephone Service" is pretty much a Relic of the Past and with it the analog phone modem but a little something dies with the analog phone modem and that is independent point to point network systems -- such as Fido Net, and the myriad of dial-up BBS systems that flourished in the 1980s is the change Good or Bad as is so often the case with change it is a little bit of both the new graphic internet interface has a lot of glitter, that's for sure, but it doesn't have any better information handling capability than the...

The academic left has painted itself into a peculiar corner. They urge the rejection of traditional grammar as chauvinistic, or, more frequently, “hegemonic.” Unfortunately for them, they eventually have to read papers by students who have previously been taught by teachers who also share this outlook. One of the seminal texts that promotes the “grammar is dead” thesis is Preparing to Teach Writing by James Williams. “Ironically, the third edition of Williams’ book Preparing to Teach Writing appeared in 2003, the same year the National Commission on Writing made public its discovery that ‘Recent analyses indicate that more than 50...

Representatives of the popular Times Roman font recently announced a shortage of periods and have offered substitutes -- such as inverted commas, exclamation marks, and semicolons -- until the crisis is overcome by people such as yourself, who through creative management of surplus punctuation can perhaps allay the constant demand for periods, whose heavy usage in the last ten years (not only in English but in virtually every language in the world) is creating a burden on writers everywhere, thus generating a litany of comments, among them: "What the hell am I supposed to do without my periods? How am...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - R. Craig Hogan, a former university professor who heads an online school for business writing here, received an anguished e-mail message recently from a prospective student. "i need help," said the message, which was devoid of punctuation. "i am writing a essay on writing i work for this company and my boss want me to help improve the workers writing skills can yall help me with some information thank you". Hundreds of inquiries from managers and executives seeking to improve their own or their workers' writing pop into Dr. Hogan's computer in-basket each month, he says, describing...

Writes, Punctuation Book and Finds It's a Best Seller By SARAH LYALL ONDON, Jan. 4 — Lynne Truss was on her way to deliver a lecture at the British Library recently when she was reminded yet again that a tremendous gap exists between her natural obsessions and those of other people. "Punctuation," Ms. Truss replied, when her taxi driver asked what she planned to talk about. But the word didn't compute; he heard something less weird in his head. "Ooh, in that case," he replied, "I better get you there on time!" So it has been a shock to the...