As my mentor Pogo once said, "I have seen the enemy and it is us;" except, in this case, the enemy is poor punctuation. Yes, and we are all guilty. Rich has no higher ground because of being a Marine Officer, I corrected many pages for officers and wondered how they ever wrote papers in college. Without punctuation, a sentence can be interpreted in a number of ways. Correct punctuation insures a greater accuracy and fewer chances for misinterpretation. In other words, correct punctuation is a tight group on the 500 yard line: punctuation leaves holes all over your target and your neighbor's target. We all need to tighten our groups on the grammar range or we will have more misfires over nothing.-Skookum
Sunday, September 22, 2013
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“...punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.”
ReplyDelete“When speaking aloud, you punctuate constantly — with body language.
Your listener hears commas, dashes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks as you shout, whisper, pause, wave your arms, roll your eyes, wrinkle your brow.
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear the way you want to be heard.”
― Russell Baker
Mr. Baker is a wise man! (As opposed to me, I'm a wise guy!)
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