Friday, July 16, 2010

write a letter to a punctuation mark

Emily runs a blog called em-dashes and suggested readers of this blog might be interested in a contest asking you to write a letter to your favorite punctuation mark. I obviously owe quotation marks quite a bit, but have some affection for the semicolon as well (and, come to think of it, the em-dash). I'm busy writing other things right now, as my many open word docs demonstrate, but I thought some of y'all might have fun with it.

4 comments:

Yerushalmi said...

I can't stand the em-dash. It's so bulky and ugly. I'm a semicolon guy myself.

JenB said...

... are ellipses a "punctuation mark" ...I "sometimes" overuse them ... I just like them a lot ...

toep said...
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toep said...

"This was a very edifying post. It allowed me to learn what a << guillemet>> is." Said one frequent visitor to the blog.