8 Totally Necessary New Punctuation Marks:

https://visual.ly/community/Infographics/humor/8-totally-necessary-new-punctuation-marks

#punctuation

Mystery Asterisk Destination
by #xkcd
https://xkcd.com/2708/
(Follow the link and hover your cursor over the image to see the alt-text that goes with the comic.)

#Comics #Humor #Punctuation

For this one I wrote about Nightbitch (by Rachel Yoder) and sensibility. But I also let myself geek about this long and luxurious sentence that piles up imagery for days.

Come across any lovely sentences lately? (Definitely count the ones you write yourself!)

#WritingCommunity #WritingConversations #Writing #Sensibility #Sentences #Nightbitch #Punctuation

https://bit.ly/NightbitchDualSens

The first use of the word "punctuation" was in 1531 for marking the text of a psalm to show how it should be chanted (according to the Oxford English Dictionary).

#punctuation

If you write as well as McCarthy then you don't need much punctuation. The rest of us, though....
#CormacMcCarthy #writing #editing #punctuation
The Three Punctuation Rules of Cormac McCarthy (RIP), and How They All Go Back to James Joyce | Open Culture
https://www.openculture.com/2023/06/the-three-punctuation-rules-of-cormac-mccarthy-rip.html

Today's #5amwritersclub looked like em-dashes and en-dashes and capitals vs lowercase.

And coffee. It looked a lot like coffee.

#amwriting #FussyDetails #Punctuation

How fun! Colorado has a mountain peak called Exclamation Point.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Exclamation+Point/@38.5865494,-107.7203785,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x873f5f08973b2a75:0x3e1d9919d8dce444!8m2!3d38.58655!4d-107.7203785!16s%2Fg%2F1s04ht0jq

h/t @xahteiwi

#RoadTrip #punctuation #ExclamationPoint

You don’t automatically put a comma before the word "because," but sometimes you need a comma to make sure your meaning is clear.

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/articles/when-to-use-a-comma-before-because/

#Grammar #Punctuation #EnglishLanguage #WritingTips

#Accessibility question, in particular for folks using screen readers (but I'm interested by everyone's perspective): how important are case and #punctuation to you?

For instance, is it harder to read a message, or a video transcript, if it's totally #lowercase and without punctuation?

(Boosts appreciated to reach a wider audience!)

@matthewmuses @grammargirl I feel as if that sentence should have started with "Heres". 😄 #GrammarDay #punctuation #words

@michaelgemar @jeffjarvis @grammargirl Proper use of the em-dash and en-dash has to be right up there with the Oxford comma. #GrammarDay #words #punctuation

@gordonkerry Morning. Beautiful.

(Note: not "morning beautiful!" 😆). #punctuation

So far my contributions to this manuscript consists of: Why don’t we make this ellipsis an em-dash? Better to set this phrase off with em-dashes? #Punctuation #EmDash #emdashlover

#words #writers #writing #typing #Proust #Balzac #Dickens #punctuation #antidisestablishmentarianism #scribble #babble

I would please like a #firefox #browser #extension that removes these annoying #hashtags we have to use for our #Mastodon posts to be searched and seen and replaces them with words in boldface, with proper case rather than the Camel Case we need to be using for Screen Reader also plurals and proper #punctuation #thanks

One thing I notice about #russian #twitter, which is not even about #linguistics, but more the #sociology of linguistics, so to say, is that a lot of people are really judgmental about each other's language. Attacks on language, on it's supposed impurity, the use of #punctuation, #sociolects and regionalisms, are _exremely common_. It's as if there were a shared understanding that a person not abiding by the norms of some "official language" can't represent the "russiannness", whatever it is 1/2

My undergraduate students mostly follow conventions in paper writing that are strange to me, but they all do it. Where do they learn them? For example, they all use semicolon where a colon is wanted; "pg." as abbreviation of "page"; no full stop at the end of a footnote; etc., etc. They have weird phraseological tics as well. Can anyone explain? #undergrad #punctuation #abbreviation #endofterm

@DaeganMiller I wonder if so many periods are a more modern thing. Just look at the writing of folks like #Thoreau and #EmilyDickinson — a cornucopia of #punctuation and the uses thereof!

Very interesting blog post with little web tool, if you want to try it yourself:

"What I Learned About My Writing By Seeing Only The #Punctuation.
I made a web tool that lets you spy your hidden literary style"

by Clive Thompson

https://medium.com/creators-hub/what-i-learned-about-my-writing-by-seeing-only-the-punctuation-efd5334060b1