Yes, my friends, today is National Punctuation Day, "a celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis."You can learn all about National Punctuation Day -- as well as the proper use of punctuation -- over on the National Punctuation Day website. The site is also running a Punctuation Haiku Contest, though you would be hard pressed to beat these gems (written by Craig Harrison):
Raised by two parens
I’ve been bracketed since youth.
I’m an inside job.
Dot dot ellipses
The yada yada of print.
So on and so forth.
Colon-oscopy:
When my editor removes
My inflamed colon.
And while not strictly about punctuation, I felt this Schoolhouse Rock video, titled "Interjections!" was appropriate to include here:
Happy National Punctuation Day to all -- and be careful where you stick that comma!
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4 comments:
It is, by far, the happiest day of the year, for complete sentences.
"You complete me," the dependent clause added.
I am cowering here in my home unable to write a complete sentence for fear of not using proper punctuation.
I did well to marry a wonderful editor, as punctuation and grammar were not in Vogue when in the late 60s and 70s when I was in school. Scary to think I was an English teacher :-)
Oh I love the ellipsis. I know I overuse it but it just says what I want to say so...eloquently.
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