Dorky Quote of the Day
OK, so clearly I'm a huge, huge dork, but I've been reading Eats, Shoots and Leaves, which if you don't know, is a book about grammar and punctuation. But it's funny. Really. Stop giving me strange looks. It is.
Anyhow, quote of the day comes from there:
"In the family of punctuation, where the ... [period] is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-defecit brother who gets over-excited and breaks things and laughs too loudly."
Come on, you know it's funny. In a dorky way, perhaps, but funny. At least I think it is.
posted by Eli7 @ 7:13 PM
5 comments
5 Comments:
Very funny, indeed! Come to think of it, I would have been inclined to say that the period was the mother (perhaps in honor of a woman's "monthly period").
Why does the semicolon have to be the one only quietly practicing piano with crossed hands?
I thought you were a semicolon fan? How can you let this gross injustice stand?
I do love semicolons, but they're pretty academic and nerdy as punctuation marks go.
And Craig, among other things, the book is in British English where the period is called the full-stop.
...And, if my memory serves me correctly, where the "!" is called an "exclamation mark" instead of the American "exclamation point."
It's a great book - glad you enjoyed.
It's just a wonderful book-yay for the dorks!!
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