Comments on: "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Punctuation http://johnrlong.com/2007/09/21/blog-of-unnecessary-punctuation/ I just blather on and on about stuff that interests me, mostly politics and sex and sometimes movies and art. Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:42:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: RebL http://johnrlong.com/2007/09/21/blog-of-unnecessary-punctuation/#comment-375 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:32:59 +0000 http://www.johnrlong.com/2007/09/21/blog-of-unnecessary-punctuation/#comment-375 I did a talkie blog about the parts of speech in which I complain about pronouns being elevated to the same level as nouns. I was challenged to name the 14 punctuation marks. I thought you, as my journalisty wordsmithing father would enjoy my response.

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Dear Naomi:

The real pisser is when (and where) to use which. I’m a little hypocritical about my punctuation since I despise the colon/semicolon mix-up, but I’m constantly in danger of comma splices. Also, I’m not entirely sure braces AND brackets are needed; nothing worth reading requires that much qualification. The list of punctuation parts has not kept up with the times as neither “” nor the asterisk has a spot — that doesn’t even take into account emoticons.

Love [Middle English, from Old English lufu … Latin lubEre, libEre to please],

Rebecca

P.S. You see? I never even used braces!

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