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punctuation

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  • n  something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions
  • n  the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
  • n  the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases

  • And no one mocks misplaced punctuation better than the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks.
  • Braving the ire of traditionalists, Steinsaltz inserted vowel marks and punctuation.
  • In the end, the debate was about one jot of punctuation, a comma.
News & Articles

  • Rally-goers respond to biker's death
    A Quad-City area motorcycle fatality Friday gave punctuation to a lesson Sly Shafer has been trying to convey for years, including at this year's Rally on the River in Davenport.
    June 15, 2013 - Quad-City Times
  • Shut Up and Love the Facebook Hashtag Already
    The rumored Facebook-approved hashtag has arrived, and instead of complaining about how Facebook will bring Twitter's much loathed, overused punctuation to a News Feed near you, it's about time we all embraced the organizational simplicity and enhanced search options now sticking to your wall. Because Facebook is making the hashtag useful again. "Starting today, hashtags will be clickable on ...
    June 12, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News
  • User account
    Spaces are allowed; punctuation is not allowed except for periods, hyphens, and underscores. A valid e-mail address. All e-mails from the system will be sent to this address.
    June 10, 2013 - The Woonsocket Call
Quotes

  • Lincoln Chafee in Los Angeles Times
    Being wrong about sending Americans to kill and be killed, maim and be maimed, is not like making a punctuation mistake in a highway bill,Chafee writes in a new book, "Against The Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless...
  • Brian Murray in International Herald Tribune
    Edward has his own specific, tremendously well-honed style of sparseness,Murray says. "His use of words and punctuation is like nobody else except perhaps (Noel) Coward. His wit is abrasive and yet, at the same time, very funny. He's the...
  • WS Merwin in The Guardian
    He said he had "come to feel that punctuation stapled the poems to the page ...... whereas I wanted the poems to evoke the spoken language, and wanted the hearing of them to be essential to taking them in."

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