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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 14, 2020 14:55:42 GMT
I deploy ellipses at every opportunity.....
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 14, 2020 15:07:22 GMT
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Post by Ass_E9 on Oct 14, 2020 15:12:53 GMT
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Post by Catman on Oct 14, 2020 15:16:07 GMT
Catman also strongly supports the semicolon.
However, he absolutely loathes apostrophes.
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Post by Stammerhead on Oct 14, 2020 15:24:39 GMT
Exclamation marks are fun to use!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 14, 2020 15:31:24 GMT
Exclamation marks are fun to use! You beat me to that one ... dang it all !!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 14, 2020 15:31:56 GMT
Catman also strongly supports the semicolon. However, he absolutely loathes apostrophes. I enjoy the semi-colon as well. Why do you loathe apostrophes? Do they seem cumbersome? I don't particularly like them, particularly if they follow an 's' because then I am forced to make an ugly. |
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 14, 2020 15:46:11 GMT
Exclamation marks are fun to use! You beat me to that one ... dang it all !!!!!!!!!!! I like exclamation marks, too. But, like the proverbial potato chip, I can never stop at just one!!!!! I also fancy using (parentheses).... they are fun!!! |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 14, 2020 15:51:28 GMT
!!!! are ok to use in series beware of multiple ? ... three can lead to an un-intended  |
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Oct 14, 2020 16:08:50 GMT
The semicolon. I like how it can grant clarity and/or help with sentence structure.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 14, 2020 16:14:06 GMT
Semi-colon ;
”I met him in ’65, and I was in the Workshop from ’65 to ’67. I spent the lion’s share of my time at Iowa with Kurt Vonnegut, and we’ve been close friends ever since. The only criticism he ever made of my writing was making fun of my fondness for semicolons, which Kurt never liked very much. He called semicolons ”transvestite hermaphrodites.” [Laughs] And so whenever we had a correspondence I would try to write him a letter that was one sentence connected by an infinite number of semicolons. [Laughs]"
- John Irving
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Post by Stammerhead on Oct 14, 2020 17:46:18 GMT
Exclamation marks are fun to use! You beat me to that one ... dang it all !!!!!!!!!!! You chose the question mark which is also pretty special...
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Post by Stammerhead on Oct 14, 2020 17:50:57 GMT
Quotation marks are fun to use after someone has made an “interesting” point.
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Post by Stammerhead on Oct 14, 2020 18:01:37 GMT
Exclamation marks are fun to use! The Spanish upside down exclamation point is even more fun to use !!! I first saw them in Asterix in Spain... 
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Post by Aj_June on Oct 14, 2020 19:47:37 GMT
I used brackets a lot for giving side info.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 14, 2020 21:48:12 GMT
I do like to use parentheses a lot (I particularly like to use the square ones [but they're not really suited for "normal" sentences]). {I don't really like and usually don't use these "curled" ones}.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Oct 14, 2020 22:20:33 GMT
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I don't enjoy exclamation points. I see emails with them at work & I wanna go home.
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Post by theauxphou on Oct 15, 2020 5:40:01 GMT
Interrobang ‽
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Post by onethreetwo on Oct 15, 2020 5:51:26 GMT
I'm positive I've told this story before, but I'm gonna tell it again anyway. I minored in Creative Writing and my Creative Writing professor told us we had 4 exclamation points to use for the rest of our lives, so don't waste any in her class. I thought that was really funny.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Oct 15, 2020 7:57:20 GMT
I've been known to use a comma or two. I used brackets a lot for giving side info. I'm fond of brackets for the same reason. |
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