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May 24, 2004
My Pitiful Baby Boomer Education
No, Mrs. Vander(something) is not to blame. I adored her, but somewhere around 5th grade I stopped paying attention to the proper use of punctuation. Today in my world, commas are like breaths and semicolons don't actually exist.
If you'd like to prove the value of your punctuational education, play the punctuation game.
For what it's worth, I gave up after "apostrophe," I just couldn't bear to go on to commas, much less semicolons. When you are sufficiently humiliated, try some additional self abuse with the grammar test.
Finally, brush up on your pronunciation.
After all that, I'm headed over to a more comfortable place. Does it mean anything that I knew all these?
Posted on May 24, 2004 9:16 AM
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Whats difficult about comma's, and apostrophe's. They unlike quotation marks arent hard, if you dont "overuse" them
Posted by: Frank Mullen on May 25, 2004 3:40 PM
My kids don't have any problem with punctuation they just don't use it since they write exactly the way they talk in fact their idea of punctuation is to stop when they get to the end of the page except sometimes when they want to make a point they use a lot of !!!!!
Maybe they've been reading too much James Joyce.
Posted by: jan on May 27, 2004 6:49 PM
"Whats difficult about comma's, and apostrophe's."
Let's edit this sentence, shall we?
What's difficult about commas and apostrophes?"
.. perhaps you rendered your thought in a deliberately clumsy way, but an apostrophe's function is to fill in where parts of words are missing. For example, "can not" (or "cannot") becomes "can't".
The first word up there, Whats", should be "What's", because you are asking "What is", hence the apostrophe to replace the 'i'.
Plural words do not take the apostrophe UNLESS the word is an abbreviation, or a number (like 1950's).
Finally, the sentence lacked a question mark. It is a question, not a statement, right? (I'm asking a question) Learn it. Know it. Use it. Remember it. Got it?
Posted by: kimf on August 17, 2005 2:58 AM
Our next lesson will be on how to spot the humorous post before replying.
Posted by: jan on August 17, 2005 9:42 AM
As with many a controversial issue such as this - we'll call it the great puncuation war - there's a website: http://www.peskyapostrophe.com/index.php/weblog/index/
Posted by: Pete on August 17, 2005 10:00 AM
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