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punctuation-completionist · 2 years ago

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well @futurebird i am a punctuation nerd. can you explain what exactly compelled you to comment this seeing as i see no problem

i have a plan for punctuation day everyone! so here's what i want you all to do!

my goal for the day is to get punctuation trending. is this too ambitious? maybe, but i don't care. i want everyone to appreciate punctuation a little

what are some things i can do you ask? well let's look at some things i could think of:—

you can make a post with every punctuation on it (but try, and here's the hard part) to put some text around it and not just list them all out

you can make up a new punctuation mark! for inspiration i would look at the works of people like hervé bazin, martin k specktor, or other people who tried to invent new punctuation

you can make a post about your favorite punctuation mark and why you like it

you can post anything related to punctuation really, those were my ideas but feel free to. i dunno. dress up as an interrobang or make art or something. go wild

so everyone! mark your calendars! september twenty fourth is the day we get #punctuation trending!

#i mean i forgot to hyphenate twenty-four that's on me #but i mean this is the way i punctuate things. fuck the mla okay it's a form of expression #especially with the period useage. it is standard punctuation for the setting i am using it in (tumblr)#obviously i would type differently on an essay or something but like. there is different formality and standards based on setting #especially if you are using punctuation to convey a message like how a sentence should be read #due to the lack of commas in tags (mostly) this means that tumblr users tend to use a full stop instead of a comma #and the period as a full stop can as well dictate an idea of cadence. it's perfectly logical #anyways sorry that just bugged me. i have not been studying punctuation for this blog for like a month and a half to be sassed by randos

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