Friday Funnies: Why Punctuation Matters

[whymzycal.livejournal.com]

The ability to use punctuation properly is very important. Don't believe us? Just ask John and Gloria.



If you want brush up on your own punctuation know-how, visit our "punctuation" tag, here.

Comments

[lawless523.livejournal.com]

Where did you find this? It's glorious. (Pun sort of intended.)

[whymzycal.livejournal.com]

Hee! I do like a good pun. ;)

This particular version was put together by grammarly.com, but I've seen variations of it elsewhere over the years (including my freshman year in college, if I remember correctly), both on the interwebs and off. I think it's the sort of thing grammarians have been using for a long time to prove the point that punctuation matters a lot, so it probably predates the internet by quite a few years, possibly even decades.

[purenegative.livejournal.com]

You know why I absolutely love this community? Because not only are the examples you give helpful, they're easy enough to understand (and fun!) that I can re-work them for the kids in my classes (I'm an English teacher). I often come to this comm when I need inspiration for my classes. So thank you for posting these. You're not just helping to educate fandoms and fic writers, you're indirectly helping secondary school kids too. :)

[whymzycal.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! That's wonderful to hear. I hope this post gives you lots of fun stuff to go over with your students!

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

Oh, this truly is wonderful, and an excellent example of how to punctuate correctly. ;-)

[whymzycal.livejournal.com]

I laughed like crazy when I saw it, so when I got a chance to pick it for posting, I jumped on it.