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रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> is tough 😥:</p><p>“How To Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–), And Hyphens (-)”, Merriam-Webster (<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">merriam-webster.com/grammar/em</span><span class="invisible">-dash-en-dash-how-to-use</span></a>).</p><p>Via HN: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497719" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">3497719</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hyphens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hyphens</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dashes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dashes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmDash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmDash</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnDash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnDash</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Style" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Style</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a></p>
Nick East (Indie Writer)<p>Punctuation is the writers only natural enemy 😜😂 </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>writers</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writingcommunity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>writingcommunity</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writing" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>writing</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/humour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humour</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/indieauthors" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>indieauthors</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/authorindiespeak" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>authorindiespeak</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingMemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingMemes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Memes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Authors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieAuthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndieAuthor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndieBooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writerdons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writerdons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writinglife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/@Legit_Spaghetti" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Legit_Spaghetti</span></a></span> </p><p>I don't know what you are complaining about.</p><p>Looking at the image: The single elephant and beach are in it, as requested; and the beach is definitely not within the elephant, but indeed is without.</p><p>Yes, I have indeed experienced Alexander's hymn "There is a green hill far away". Many, many times.</p><p>Did you try "sans"?</p><p>You could try to see what it makes of the first two lines of the hymn.</p><p>(-:</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/elephants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elephants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EnglishPrepositions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishPrepositions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ThereIsAGreenHillFarAway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThereIsAGreenHillFarAway</span></a></p>
DB 🌱💦<p>Another gem by wordsmith Elle Cordova!</p><p>“I’m essential”<br>“You’re vestigial”</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> marks hanging out! </p><p>c: @ElleCordova on IG</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grammar</span></a></p>
DB 🌱💦<p>Another gem by wordsmith Elle Cordova!</p><p>“I’m essential”<br>“You’re vestigial”</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> marks hanging out! </p><p>c: @ElleCordova on IG</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grammar</span></a></p>
रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)<p>Elle Cordova is brilliant 🤩:</p><p>“Punctuation Marks Hanging Out” (<a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/ky0YOo7_Y0o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtube.com/shorts/ky0YOo7_Y0o</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shorts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shorts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grammar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Video</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a></p>
The Christian Science Monitor<p>Our writer long avoided exclamation points. Then, the pandemic hit and the lively punctuation became a signal flare in a cold, gray sea. Now he loves their zing! Their fizz! Their pop! <a href="https://flipboard.com/tag/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.com/tag/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2025/0402/exclamation-mark-punctuation-grammar-question-mark?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_medium=activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-</span><span class="invisible">Home-Forum/2025/0402/exclamation-mark-punctuation-grammar-question-mark?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_medium=activitypub </span></a></p><p>Posted into Commentary <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@csmonitor/commentary-he1to8sqz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>commentary-csmonitor</span></a></span></p>
Third spruce tree on the left<p>Grammarly: we miss you! Did you take a writing break? </p><p>me: it's not you, it's my new IT department won't allow <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Grammarly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grammarly</span></a> and Microsoft Editor sucks donkey balls; I guess having proper <a href="https://mas.to/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a>, grammar and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> in our product <a href="https://mas.to/tags/documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>documentation</span></a> isn't a priority here at InniTrobe.</p>
Fictionable is moving<p>'Punctuation controls two things: logical separation and breath… Writers weigh each role differently.'</p><p>Matthew Zipf on Renata Adler's commas:</p><p><a href="https://theamericanscholar.org/in-the-matter-of-the-commas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theamericanscholar.org/in-the-</span><span class="invisible">matter-of-the-commas</span></a></p><p><a href="https://lor.sh/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/commas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commas</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Stan Carey<p>And Michael Tomasello's book "Origins of Human Communication" has a sentence 261 words long that's more intelligible than many sentences one tenth its length.</p><p>Clarity hinges on structure and sense, and his line uses 11 semicolons – here, the right choice – to form a precisely executed parallelism.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MichaelTomasello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelTomasello</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/semicolons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>semicolons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/copyediting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copyediting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>syntax</span></a></p>
Stan Carey<p>There are exceptions. Halfway through Patrick deWitt's first novel "Ablutions" is a sentence 207 words long that made me want to stand and cheer.</p><p>Not to be all leave-it-to-the-pros, but you do need to have certain skills to attempt a sentence of such length and hope to keep readers firmly on track.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/PatrickDeWitt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PatrickDeWitt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Stan Carey<p>Sometimes four short sentences are better than a single 140-word behemoth built with creaky semicolons and sticky tape. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AmEditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmEditing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/copyediting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copyediting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/semicolons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>semicolons</span></a></p>
Mark A. Rayner<p>Punctuation: It matters!</p><p>Those quotation marks really don't "help."</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humour</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/weird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weird</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/signs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>signs</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/proofreading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proofreading</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>🔴 📖 ***The King's English by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler**</p><p>_“Read now or download for (free!)”_</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75439" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">gutenberg.org/ebooks/75439</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Read" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Read</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Download" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Download</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nonfiction</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Book</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Ebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ebook</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grammar</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Vocabulary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vocabulary</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syntax</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ProjectGutenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectGutenberg</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>linguistics</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Freddy<p>Style guides and standardisation have beaten out any creativity in punctuation. The near eradication of the multi-purposed ellipsis has been one of its greatest losses.</p><p><a href="https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/in-praise-of-the-ellipsis/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">engelsbergideas.com/notebook/i</span><span class="invisible">n-praise-of-the-ellipsis/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.lol/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a></p>
GeorgeLThomas<p>The Oxford Comma<br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WriterCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WriterCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WritingTips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingTips</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WriterAdvice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WriterAdvice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GrammarTips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrammarTips</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TheOxfordComma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheOxfordComma</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grammar</span></a></p><p><a href="http://georgelthomas.com/2025/02/11/the-oxford-comma/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">georgelthomas.com/2025/02/11/t</span><span class="invisible">he-oxford-comma/</span></a></p>
The Conversation U.S.<p>While the Supreme Court’s politics have veered right, the court’s language has gotten surprisingly progressive. Justices now use contractions, casual language, and personal pronouns to make their opinions more accessible to the public. <a href="https://theconversation.com/us-supreme-court-is-unabashedly-liberal-in-its-writing-style-245503" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/us-supreme</span><span class="invisible">-court-is-unabashedly-liberal-in-its-writing-style-245503</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scotus</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a></p>
J.A. Jablonski - Writer<p>That moment when you are proofreading and you see something funny: a period that looks odd. Yep, it was in italics, just a little tilted. 😆 </p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Proofreading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Proofreading</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/CopyEditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopyEditing</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a></p>
Hebrew by Inbal<p>Here’s a fun little riddle to test your punctuation knowledge in Hebrew. What is the answer in Hebrew to this riddle:</p><p>I’m the smallest member of the writing world,<br>But I can stop you in your tracks.<br>Without me, sentences would just run on and on!<br>What am I?</p><p>Drop your guesses below and let’s see who gets it right!</p><p><a href="https://babka.social/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Hebrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hebrew</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/PunctuationMarks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PunctuationMarks</span></a></p>
Different Than<p>Journalists need to stop beginning sentences with "Yet, ..." Undergrads do it, okay, fine. You're supposed to have learned something since then.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/GetOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GetOffMyLawn</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OldPerson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OldPerson</span></a></p>