Comments on: The power of the period. Or comma. Or colon. Or … http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/01/the-power-of-the-period-or-comma-or-colon-or/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Emily http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/01/the-power-of-the-period-or-comma-or-colon-or/comment-page-1/#comment-37616 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 05:52:59 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9710#comment-37616 hmmm…

I wonder if you meant:

“It would have been funnier had the writer adopted a snob persona and wrote [written?], in prose, a short comment of indignation, a feigned complaint of yet another assault from the philistine class.”

?????????????????? :)

]]> By: Rochelle http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/01/the-power-of-the-period-or-comma-or-colon-or/comment-page-1/#comment-37615 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:00:39 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9710#comment-37615 I agree with you, Patrick!

]]> By: Patrick http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/01/the-power-of-the-period-or-comma-or-colon-or/comment-page-1/#comment-37614 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:13:03 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9710#comment-37614 IMHO the ellipses is the most underused punctuation in literature. According to Grammar Girl, it should only be used to show an omission. I respectfully disagree, and think it can be used in dialogue to show a pause.

]]> By: Rochelle http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/01/the-power-of-the-period-or-comma-or-colon-or/comment-page-1/#comment-37612 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:40:55 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9710#comment-37612 My favorite!

http://imgur.com/fycHx

]]> By: EDWARD http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/01/the-power-of-the-period-or-comma-or-colon-or/comment-page-1/#comment-37611 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:43:10 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9710#comment-37611 The BUZZFEED piece was funny, but the writer sabotaged the work in several different ways. First, using obscene language isn’t funny. Second, the idea of presenting 22 examples (rather than the top ten, say) is arbitrary. Lastly, the writer further proved amateurish by using the list format at all. It would have been funnier had the writer adopted a snob persona and wrote, in prose, a short comment of indignation, a feigned complaint of yet another assault from the philistine class.

]]> By: Lynn http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/01/the-power-of-the-period-or-comma-or-colon-or/comment-page-1/#comment-37609 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:35:58 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9710#comment-37609 Omg, Rachel, I loved both your links! And thank you for the laughs about commas. The last one, #22, had me laughing so hard, tears were running down my face, my stomach was hurting—well, you get the picture!!! Thanks again! (Em-dash, right? Yeah!)

]]> By: Jennifer M. Hartsock http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/01/the-power-of-the-period-or-comma-or-colon-or/comment-page-1/#comment-37608 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:31:16 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9710#comment-37608 Punctuation is so complicated and fascinating! For me, I never use parentheses. Never. I’m not sure if it’s because I don’t think they’re necessary, or because I don’t know how to use them!

Jennifer

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