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Stan Carey<p>Sooner or later we have to come to terms with the fact that the internet has radicalized a whole generation of people who would otherwise not hold extreme views about the Oxford comma</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/commas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OxfordComma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OxfordComma</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SerialComma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SerialComma</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/editing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>editing</span></a></p>
😀🚲<p>What's really nuts is: they don't just let me paint the lanes. Tell me the functional difference between a painted line and some meat occupying a space? [I stopped at ~1min here because somebody lost their sweatpants in the street. (yes that's a bracket, not a parenthetical)] <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/BikeLaneSweeper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BikeLaneSweeper</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/pdxBikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pdxBikes</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/HorseChestnuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HorseChestnuts</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a></p><p>Follow me for more <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/trafficEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trafficEngineering</span></a> / <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> tips.</p>
Flipboard Culture Desk<p>According to new research by language-learning company Babbel, the semicolon is going the way of the pilcrow and the percontation point. Here's <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@USAToday" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>USAToday</span></a></span>'s breakdown of the research. We want to know: Are you a fan of the punctuation mark, which George Orwell called "an unnecessary stop" and Cormac McCarthy described as "idiocy." For extra credit, take the quiz at the bottom of USAToday's story.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/IJEug1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/IJEug1</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grammar</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Lifestyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lifestyle</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Culture</span></a></p>
Terry Matz<p>It's National Punctuation Day, a day to remember that correct punctuation saves lives!<br>As usual, knitters are ready to help with this free knitting pattern for a versatile punctuation toy that can be a comma, apostrophe, and even air quotes!<br>Pattern by Morgen Dämmerung is on my symbol patterns post<br><a href="https://intheloopknitting.com/symbols-and-emoticon-knitting-patterns/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">intheloopknitting.com/symbols-</span><span class="invisible">and-emoticon-knitting-patterns/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>knitting</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a></p>
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:<p>Today is National Punctuation Day! So let’s talk about the interrobang. “What the heck is that‽” you ask/exclaim?</p><p>In 1962, advertising agency director Martin K. Speckter had seen one too many sentences ending with ?!. So he suggested that we generate a new punctuation character called “interrobang.” He wrote up his recommendation for the publication TYPEtalks.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrob</span><span class="invisible">ang</span></a></p><p>🧵1/4</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/NationalPunctuationDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalPunctuationDay</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Interrobang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Interrobang</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grammar</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Typeface" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Typeface</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Fonts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fonts</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Keyboards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Keyboards</span></a></p>
Stan Carey<p>Notes (and comics) on the hyphen in Moby-Dick <br><a href="https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71056" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/</span><span class="invisible">?p=71056</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/hyphen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hyphen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MobyDick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MobyDick</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Frazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frazz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/HermanMelville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HermanMelville</span></a></p>
Sam at BLAG<p>Just finished 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy.</p><p>While reading it, I noticed that all the contractions of the form 'word+not' (e.g. don't, won't, isn't, weren't) drop their apostrophe to give dont, wont, isnt, werent, etc.</p><p>However, all the other contactions are written as you'd expect, with an apostrophe. </p><p>Can anyone more literate than me explain why this stylistic device might have been employed?</p><p>cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shadychars" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>shadychars</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://typo.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/TheRoad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheRoad</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/CormacMcCarthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CormacMcCarthy</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/AskFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AskFedi</span></a></p>
Rebecca Nordquist<p>This is most excellent: </p><p>"Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."</p><p>The Em Dash Responds to the AI<br>Allegations</p><p><a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em</span><span class="invisible">-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations</span></a></p><p><a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/genAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genAI</span></a></p>
George Macgregor<p>I *love* em dashes. In fact, I sometimes wonder if I over use them in my writing. Can you over use em dashes?!</p><p>All hail the em dash!</p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/merrileeiam.bsky.social/post/3lu4ct46nbs2g" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/merrileeiam.b</span><span class="invisible">sky.social/post/3lu4ct46nbs2g</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/EmDash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmDash</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a></p>
Ted Johnson<p>As a lifelong user of em dashes and en dashes, I can never forgive ChatGPT for the cloud of suspicion it has hung over me... </p><p>I hesitate to use them — and it breaks my heart. </p><p><a href="https://xkcd.com/3126/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">xkcd.com/3126/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/xkcd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xkcd</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HalfHeartedFanatic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HalfHeartedFanatic</span></a></p>
Flipboard Culture Desk<p>Scurrilous rumors are circulating that use of a closed-up em dash is evidence that writing is AI generated. But what does the em dash think of this? McSweeney's imagines the conversation. </p><p>"You think I showed up with ChatGPT? Mary Shelley used me… gratuitously. Dickinson? Obsessed. David Foster Wallace built a temple of footnotes in my name. I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not."</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/jUYqLa" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/jUYqLa</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Culture</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/EmDash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmDash</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a></p>
Nick East (Indie Writer)<p>I'd really like to meet Nelson Mandela the 800-year-old demi-god and dildo collector, he seems fun 😜😂 </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writers</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writingcommunity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writingcommunity</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writing" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writing</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/humour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>humour</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/indieauthors" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>indieauthors</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/authorindiespeak" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>authorindiespeak</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingMemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingMemes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Memes</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grammar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Oxford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oxford</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Comma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Comma</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Authors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieAuthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieAuthor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieBooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writerdons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writerdons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writinglife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p>
Candace Robb<p>This is a delicious tribute to the sensual semi-colon. Enjoy! </p><p>"Witness this gorgeous specimen by Christopher Marlowe, in ‘Hero and Leander’:</p><p> Come thither; As she spake this, her toong tript.<br> For vnawares (Come thither) from her slipt.<br> And sodainly her former colour chang’d.<br> And here and there her eies through anger rang’d.</p><p>That slight, erotic pause after the first ‘thither’; it’s heavenly."<br><a href="https://historians.social/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>words</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-semicolon-had-its-moment-that-moment-is-over/#comments-container" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">spectator.co.uk/article/the-se</span><span class="invisible">micolon-had-its-moment-that-moment-is-over/#comments-container</span></a></p>
Stan Carey<p>Reading a university style guide that recommends "eleven year-old children".</p><p>This does not mean what they think it means, but on the plus side it could lead to some wildly amusing data.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/hyphens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hyphens</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/StyleGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StyleGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/orthography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>orthography</span></a></p>
Stan Carey<p>I don't think any punctuation marks need protecting, by the way. The Apostrophe Protection Society, for example, is a dogmatic organisation with an appetite for shaming people and no apparent understanding of the apostrophe's diverse history and continuing mutability.</p><p>Punctuation patterns ebb and flow and change with the times. If people see the need for a particular mark, they'll keep using it.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/semicolon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>semicolon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/apostrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apostrophe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/prescriptivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prescriptivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a></p>
Stan Carey<p>In all the recent fuss over the semicolon's apparent decline (see e.g. <a href="https://theconversation.com/semicolons-are-becoming-increasingly-rare-their-disappearance-should-be-resisted-257019" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/semicolons</span><span class="invisible">-are-becoming-increasingly-rare-their-disappearance-should-be-resisted-257019</span></a> ), I've seen no mention of Cecelia Watson's book, which I reviewed here: <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/book-review-semicolon-by-cecelia-watson/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stancarey.wordpress.com/2019/0</span><span class="invisible">8/12/book-review-semicolon-by-cecelia-watson/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/semicolon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>semicolon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookReview</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Furthering<p>Decline in semicolon usage, and thank goodness, not least because people generally don't know how to use them correctly.</p><p>I try to get my non-native English-speaking colleagues to cut down on their use and to please do not use them in bullet lists.</p><p>"Too academic for our purposes!" I say.</p><p>Although a careful, considered semicolon, a literary semicolon, I can get behind.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/18/marked-decline-semicolon-use-english-books-study-suggests" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/science/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ay/18/marked-decline-semicolon-use-english-books-study-suggests</span></a></p><p><a href="https://convo.casa/tags/semicolons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>semicolons</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a></p>
Nick East (Indie Writer)<p>Punctuation is the writers only natural enemy 😜😂 </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writers</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writingcommunity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writingcommunity</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writing" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writing</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/humour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>humour</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/indieauthors" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>indieauthors</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/authorindiespeak" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>authorindiespeak</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingMemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingMemes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Memes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Authors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieAuthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieAuthor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieBooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writerdons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writerdons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writinglife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p>
The Christian Science Monitor<p>Our writer long avoided exclamation points. Then, the pandemic hit and the lively punctuation became a signal flare in a cold, gray sea. Now he loves their zing! Their fizz! Their pop! <a href="https://flipboard.com/tag/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.com/tag/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2025/0402/exclamation-mark-punctuation-grammar-question-mark?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_medium=activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-</span><span class="invisible">Home-Forum/2025/0402/exclamation-mark-punctuation-grammar-question-mark?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_medium=activitypub </span></a></p><p>Posted into Commentary <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@csmonitor/commentary-he1to8sqz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>commentary-csmonitor</span></a></span></p>
Third spruce tree on the left<p>Grammarly: we miss you! Did you take a writing break? </p><p>me: it's not you, it's my new IT department won't allow <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Grammarly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grammarly</span></a> and Microsoft Editor sucks donkey balls; I guess having proper <a href="https://mas.to/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a>, grammar and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> in our product <a href="https://mas.to/tags/documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>documentation</span></a> isn't a priority here at InniTrobe.</p>
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