Grammarly: we miss you! Did you take a writing break?
me: it's not you, it's my new IT department won't allow #Grammarly and Microsoft Editor sucks donkey balls; I guess having proper #spelling, grammar and #punctuation in our product #documentation isn't a priority here at InniTrobe.
'Punctuation controls two things: logical separation and breath… Writers weigh each role differently.'
Matthew Zipf on Renata Adler's commas:
https://theamericanscholar.org/in-the-matter-of-the-commas
#books #reading #writing #fiction #punctuation #commas #bookstodon @bookstodon
I don't really like it when a slogan or mantra or statement comes in three miniature sentences that make a strange stuttering enunciation to add fictional wait to the words. It's maybe because I don't think it is grammatically correct but more that it is stylistically cheesy or lacking in the impact that it is intended, maybe a hyphen or comma would be better like
Every - Single - Time
which is the one I saw this morning that led to this, it feels better and reads better. #words #punctuation
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And Michael Tomasello's book "Origins of Human Communication" has a sentence 261 words long that's more intelligible than many sentences one tenth its length.
Clarity hinges on structure and sense, and his line uses 11 semicolons – here, the right choice – to form a precisely executed parallelism.
There are exceptions. Halfway through Patrick deWitt's first novel "Ablutions" is a sentence 207 words long that made me want to stand and cheer.
Not to be all leave-it-to-the-pros, but you do need to have certain skills to attempt a sentence of such length and hope to keep readers firmly on track.
Sometimes four short sentences are better than a single 140-word behemoth built with creaky semicolons and sticky tape.
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While the Supreme Court’s politics have veered right, the court’s language has gotten surprisingly progressive. Justices now use contractions, casual language, and personal pronouns to make their opinions more accessible to the public. https://theconversation.com/us-supreme-court-is-unabashedly-liberal-in-its-writing-style-245503 #grammar #scotus #punctuation
Journalists need to stop beginning sentences with "Yet, ..." Undergrads do it, okay, fine. You're supposed to have learned something since then.
> How is that "rude"?
My wife just ran into someone who claimed that using punctuation in a text was rude and aggressive - yes, for real. It seems half of everyone under 30 these days is so sensitive that "snowflake" doesn't even begin to cover it...
rude (adjective): presented in a manner which does not cater to your every whim and preference, or which paints you in anything but the most positive light
On the first day of the new Congress, my Rep. sent an email with the subject, “Swearing In Newsletter.” I was disappointed to find that he had just omitted a hyphen.
#punctuation
> "They were so aggressive in their text!"
< "Why, what'd they do?"
> "They used an ellipsis!"
Real conversation. I'm looking around for Alan Funt. I can't even imagine their reaction if it had been an octothorpe. [1]
#aggressive #punctuation #trigger #ellipsis #octothorpe #ampersand #hyphen #caret #parentheses #brackets #braces #asterisk
[1] Why yes, Firefox spellchecker, when I typed "octothorpe" I clearly really meant to type "#clotheshorse".
Maybe I should respond to Currys pointing out the spelling and punctuation errors in their poster.
Currys are a large electrical retailer in the UK.
Another day, another explanation to a French-speaking revisor that, no, we don't (or shouldn’t) use exclamation points in English for emphasis. (And, frankly, you shouldn't in French either, but that's not my battle.)
For God's sake, stop!
See what I did there? ;)
Dear people:
Fucking learn to fucking capitalize your fucking abbreviations. It is really, seriously not that hard, even on mobile.
![sign at a grocery story that says: ring bell for "meat service" [sic]](https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/110/454/334/885/782/original/e4beb7767fe26c72.jpg "sign at a grocery story that says: ring bell for \"meat service\" [sic]")
