As a result of that, punctuation is one of those things that just 'gets to me.' After reading "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" I realized that I am not alone! That I am not a single curmudgeon, cringing every time I see "apple's for sale" on a sign or "your" used where "you're" should be. In fact, there are enough of us crabby apples to bake a pie - or at least start an unofficial holiday!
Today is National Punctuation Day! Hooray! The official web site has some good tips on how to use commonly mis-used punctuation marks, if you need help or just want to read them again to add to your smug sense of self-satisfaction. *ahem*
http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com
*For any young people reading: those amusing sidewalk chalks that you love so well? They used to make them in thinner forms (about the circumference of a pencil) and teachers would use them to write upon special "chalk boards" that were mounted to the walls in the classroom. Sort of like your dry-erase boards of today (although these are probably being phased out in lieu of some newfangled projector screens).
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They still use the white boards - makes a good surface to mount the smart board tools that let you manipulate the image you project from your laptop onto said white board.
Not kidding. It's totally cool.
And I'm totally with you on the punctuation thing - except for "its": the only possessive in the English language that *doesn't* have an apostrophe before the "s." Why? Why does the contraction get the apostrophe and not the possessive?
Well, OK, now that I think about it, I guess "yours", "ours", "hers" etc are like that too and they've never given me trouble. For some reason only "its" bugs me.
- Kim ('cause OpenID isn't cooperating today)
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