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How I love your signs
squeezing meaning out of chaos:
the necessary <full stop>
the useful <comma>
the elegant <semi-colon>
the dramatic <colon>
the enquiring <query>
the over-used <em dash>
and the brutalised <apostrophe>
But please, keep your <exclamation points> to yourself!!
10 comments:
Wonderful!!!! Oh, I do SO love this...
I agree. Wonderful - I have tried hard to curb my enthusiasm for exclamation marks but sometimes it overwhelms me!!!!!
I avoid exclamation marks, too, Isabel but like you I'm grateful for those other signs that help to guide our reading. Ah the joys pf grammar. Terrific verse.
brilliant - but I still like !!! In my head they are a cross between a giggle and a Donald Duck 'squwark' !!! See?
Yes, I have never understood authors who try and do away with them. I wish there were more and not just smileys which I can't bring myself to use. I often wish writing was like musical notation - now there is a thing of beauty.
Whew, dodged my fatal attraction, ellipses, probably used poorly and often. Intelligent and charming post.
I am glad my 'Apostrophe' has struck a chord! My feeling for exclamation marks is that they should be saved for special occasions so that they mean something!
I also use ellipses frequently ... I find they cover a multitude of sins for me, not least incomplete or faulty thought ...
I have a deffo problem with the comma, recognising this is part of my recovery - hopefully!
I have been brutalised by apostrophes on numerous occasions.
J'en ai marre!
Dont you mean, !!?.
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