SEP 24, 25.. PUNCTUATION MARKS..
Our first “real snow” of the season. It fell up North of Anchorage on the Richardson Highway.
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What Captain? You just mentioned Snow and here we are talking about..
PUNCTUATION MARKS..
I know at least three of you who enjoy Punctuation Marks. “My Patti”, Gullible and Kathleen.
Hello NATIONAL TODAY..
National Punctuation Day on September 24 celebrates the punctuation marks that makes our words legible and gets our point across.
From the lowly comma to the flamboyant ampersand (&) a typographical symbol representing the word “and”.
Today we take for granted the little dots, slashes, and spaces that turn a string of unintelligible letters into a compelling story. Since most early languages were purely verbal, punctuation was not necessary.
It wasn’t until the Bible began to be printed en masse that punctuation marks spread. Bible printing was widespread between 400 and 800 A.D., and punctuation marks helped those who read the text aloud know where to pause and place emphasis.
Today we end literary queries with a simple symbol, ‘?’. Those who used Latin would write out the word ‘question’ to indicate the end of a question!
In the late 20th century with the life-changing arrival of computers suddenly symbols like ‘#’ and ‘@’ took on whole new, tech-specific meanings! Additionally, texting and chatting online requires knowledge of a wholly different, somewhat colloquial body of punctuation rules.
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A cute Tid – Bit..
Did a punctuation “Save Grandma”?
“Let’s eat Grandma!”
Look what a comma , does to save Grandma!
“Let’s eat, Grandma!”
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From Gullible..
An English professor wrote the words:
“A woman without her man is nothing” and asked the students to punctuate it correctly.
All of the males in class wrote:
A woman: without her man, is nothing.”
All of the women in class wrote:
“A woman: without her, man is nothing.”
Punctuation is powerful!!
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Do you know what ‘#’ is called?
Its official name is an ‘Octothorpe’!
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Today, Wednesday the 24th of September, Survivor 49 will premier on CBS.
Patti has been a Survivor Fan from the very first show, Survivor Borneo, on May 31st 2000.
Patti and I are literally “holding our breaths” because we are having difficulties successfully “navigating” our own YouTube Television.
This “streaming TV” sure can be a challenge.
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Cap and Patti
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A Gullible original:
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Behold the mighty semicolon,
Undaunted, audacious hieroglyphic symbol,
Thy name implies a power halved—
Neither period stop nor comma pause,
But something in between
And rarely understood.
Power halved?
Ah, thy power to strike fear in the heart
of one who dares employ thee
Ranks first amongst thy kindred marks.
Generations fear thee;
generations avoid thee.
Behold the mighty semicolon!
Once upon the slippery slope,
falling inexorably into dis-use,
Rather than mis-use.
Fear not, oh semicolon.
Now is thy time upon the stage.
Thou will not disappear into obscurity,
But live in perpetuity
As a sly and winking emoticon.
;>)
A very nice “original” Gullible. You continue to amaze us. Cap and Patti
Not a Gullible original:
An English professor wrote the words:
“A woman without her man is nothing” and asked the students to punctuate it correctly.
All of the males in class wrote:
A woman, without her man, is nothing.”
All of the women in class wrote:
“A woman: without her, man is nothing.”
Punctuation is powerful.
It may not be an “original” but it was fun Gullible. Cap and Patti