Comments on: Peevish on Punctuation

By: Jerome

Jerome — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:55:57 +0000

I’m SO guilty of overellipsizing. Period.

By: Julie Nilson

Julie Nilson — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:05:07 +0000

I am a flagrant user of em dashes, at least in my email correspondence. I try to be a little less flagrant in my fiction, but I’m not sure how well I succeed.

Your piece on unnecessary ellipses gave me a warm fuzzy, reminding me of a sweet friend who passed away years ago and would go on similarly hilarious rants about people who used those.

By: Teri Carter

Teri Carter — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:46:43 +0000

Hello. My name is Teri. I am an em dash addict.

When I go back to get rid of the Em Dashes, Justs, and all the sentences beginning with But and And, my prose actually becomes all sparkly.

By: Homer Simpson

Homer Simpson — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:07:23 +0000

<'))))< fish annoy me most

By: Amy Armstrong

Amy Armstrong — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 02:30:46 +0000

I hate really long sentences. I also hate it when authors show off how sophisticated they are by not using quotation marks. Excessive ellipses are also disconcerting. Clearly, if she’s only telling you part of the story, there’s something shady going on.

By: EEV

EEV — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:12:08 +0000

Your interpretation of M’s concealed thoughts made me LOL.
I do have punctuation peeves: semi-colons used gratuitously. And the ellipses… also annoy… the hell out… of me…