Happy National Punctuation Day

Subject: Happy National Punctuation Day Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:03 am

For links to the HQ for National Punctuation day and a really funny blog about unnecessary quotation marks, here's my post about it:

http://jockstewart.typepad.com/writers_notebook/2008/09/welcome-to-nati.html

Malcolm

Subject: Re: Happy National Punctuation Day Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:14 am

That's great, Malcolm. And useful, too.

Subject: Re: Happy National Punctuation Day Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:14 am

Who would've guessed that there would be a day put aside for this! And it's been going on for 5 years. Amazing we haven't heard about it before. Thanks for the info, Malcolm. Love the post.

Subject: Re: Happy National Punctuation Day Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:32 am

I thought I read a post where they planned to write a book and at the end, list all the punctuations, and tell the reader to place them where they saw fit? Or was I dreaming?

Subject: Re: Happy National Punctuation Day Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:08 am

I'd call it a nightmare, Abe.

This reminds me that I once got chewed out by a managing editor for using the term "grammatical error." "If it's erroneous, it isn't grammatical," he said. "From now on use 'error in grammar.'" I did, of course. Not that it ended the chewing outs. Managing editors tend to have eyes that would turn a hawk green with envy.

Subject: Re: Happy National Punctuation Day Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:08 am

Go for it, Abe. Nightmares make the best stories, Dick. Helen, I had never heard of National Punctuation Day until I glanced at a short feature story about it in the Atlanta paper. Thanks for stopping by my blog, Zada.

Malcolm