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Attention Everyone On The Internet

by Tim F|  September 14, 20092:27 pm| 105 Comments

This post is in: Excellent Links, Open Threads, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing

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Thursday, September 24 is National Punctuation Day! Please mark you’re calendars.

***Update***

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  1. 1.

    chopper

    September 14, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    the comment’s for this thread should be fun

  2. 2.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    September 14, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    We don’t celebrate that holiday in our house because talk Like a Pirate day is more fun and not hard also

    aaaarrrrrrrrrrrr

  3. 3.

    ellaesther

    September 14, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    Commenter corrections of “you’re” in 3, 2,1….

  4. 4.

    JeremyH

    September 14, 2009 at 2:36 pm

    Its about time, that someone recognized the importance of proper punctuation. Blogger’s really need pay more attention to it, I’m going to as well, now.

  5. 5.

    Warren Terra

    September 14, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    This is excellent news! ! For … somebody! ! 1 ! ! ONE!
    (Sorry, the opportunity to use! multiple! exclamation! points! with even some minimal relevance to the post overwhelmed me)

  6. 6.

    Woodrowfan

    September 14, 2009 at 2:39 pm

    Shouldn’t that be..

    PLEASE! mark you’re calendar’s! ???

  7. 7.

    MikeJ

    September 14, 2009 at 2:42 pm

    . .

    That’s two periods. My sister missed two and my dad shot the gardener.

  8. 8.

    Corner Stone

    September 14, 2009 at 2:44 pm

    I am concerned.

  9. 9.

    smiley

    September 14, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    Commas. When in doubt, do not use.

  10. 10.

    The Bearded Blogger

    September 14, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    I like the English language a lot, but it seems to me it likes the charm that only accentuation such as the german umlaut, the frenchy hats on top of vowels or that weird scandinavian dot above the A can provide.

    Also, what’s with these {}? When are you supposed to use them?

  11. 11.

    MikeJ

    September 14, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    We don’t celebrate that holiday in our house because talk Like a Pirate day is more fun and not hard also

    Pirate punctuation:

    ? hook
    ! peg leg

  12. 12.

    wasabi gasp

    September 14, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    Is it in response to this past Saturday’s Punchunation Day?

  13. 13.

    licensed to kill time

    September 14, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    eat’s, shoot’s leave’s was a good, book?

  14. 14.

    cleek

    September 14, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    @The Bearded Blogger:

    Also, what’s with these {}? When are you supposed to use them?

    you use them to delineate a compound statement, or to provide nested scope:

    if (a < 5)
    {
    format(“C:\\”);
    MessageBox(“You lose”);
    }
    else
    {
    MessageBox(“You win. This time.”);
    }

  15. 15.

    MikeJ

    September 14, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    Also, what’s with these {}? When are you supposed to use them?

    my $hash_ref = {};

    I was hacking perl for a bank in Rome once. Perl is a computer language that people always joke looks like line noise because of all the punctuation. There were things I simply could not say in perl using an Italian keyboard because nobody could figure out how to get the proper symbol. (IIRC, we did eventually get it, but I don’t even remember which mark it was I needed.)

  16. 16.

    gbear

    September 14, 2009 at 2:52 pm

    National Punctuation Day!

    Does that mean we’re supposed to punch somebody?

  17. 17.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 14, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    “One thing? I, like: about, Dear Miss Kinnian: (thats, the way? it goes; in a business, letter (if I ever go! into business?) is that, she: always gives me’ a reason” when – I ask. She”s a gen’ius! I cou’d be smart like-her, Punctuation , is? fun!” – Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

  18. 18.

    Shell

    September 14, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    I’m waiting for National Sandwich Day-November 3

  19. 19.

    gbear

    September 14, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    Ooops. Late to the punch, so to speak. Wasabi gasp, at 12, beat me to it.

  20. 20.

    The Bearded Blogger

    September 14, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    @ cleek, 14

    Thank you, that was very clear and illuminating

  21. 21.

    JK

    September 14, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    Brief reference to the death of Jim Carroll is contained on the website of the St Mark’s Poetry Project
    http://poetryproject.org/uncategorized/jim-carroll-1949-2009.html

    NY Times obit for Jim Carroll
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/books/14carroll.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries

  22. 22.

    JGabriel

    September 14, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    Also, what’s with these {}? When are you supposed to use them?

    Programming and math proofs. Or if you want to make your parenthetical remarks look Germanic. And squared brackets, [], are for editorial remarks, of course.

    .

  23. 23.

    Zach

    September 14, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    Tea Party photo fakers are obviously insensitive to the plight of the American Indian – http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/sep/14/tea-party-photo-shows-large-crowd-different-event/

    There’s another big problem with the photograph: it doesn’t include the National Museum of the American Indian, a building located at the corner of Fourth St. and Independence Ave. that opened on Sept. 14, 2004. (Looking at the photograph, the building should be in the upper right hand corner of the National Mall, next to the Air and Space Museum.) That means the picture was taken before the museum opened exactly five years ago. So clearly the photo doesn’t show the “tea party” crowd from the Sept. 12 protest.

  24. 24.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 14, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    @MikeJ:

    Ah, the memories. I spent the first days at work in Rome pulling the keys out and rearranging them to match the English keyboard layout I had virtually changed it to. No matter how I try I can’t disregard what it says on the key, since I don’t really touch type but more like hunt and peck but at100 WPM.

    I remember also searching the clqviers frqncqises here for years for the putain ~ key because it was part of my earthlink home page address with all my links on it. I used to have to find one on the Web by Googling “tilde” and copy it.

  25. 25.

    Linkmeister

    September 14, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    National Punctuation Day? thats no fun!

  26. 26.

    J.W. Hamner

    September 14, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    It’s about time the semi-colon was given the recognition it so richly deserves. The dash, however, can burn in hell along with its greatest proponent.

  27. 27.

    Colette

    September 14, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    @The Bearded Blogger:

    Also, what’s with these {}? When are you supposed to use them?

    All I know about those is that I had to spend hours (sorry, hour’s) practicing them in handwriting class, back in the time of the ancients when such a thing was still taught.

    that that is is that that is not is not is not that that is not not. Discuss.

  28. 28.

    Shell

    September 14, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    “hat means the picture was taken before the museum opened exactly five years ago. So clearly the photo doesn’t show the “tea party” crowd from the Sept. 12 protest.”

    Jeez, they can’t even cheat properly.

  29. 29.

    Zach

    September 14, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    @The Bearded Blogger: Braces are employed to {enclose a set in math, list items of a single unit in writing, function as mustaches in emoticons}.

  30. 30.

    Incertus

    September 14, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    @smiley: I swear to Jeebus, if I ever discover who came up with the notion that “you put a comma where you breathe” as a way to teach grammar to middle-schoolers, I will deliver to said person a planet-shattering kick to the junk or junk-equivalent.

  31. 31.

    cleek

    September 14, 2009 at 3:22 pm

    we need a national “ironic” quotes day !

  32. 32.

    Martin

    September 14, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    I swear to Jeebus, if I ever discover who came up with the notion that “you put a comma where you breathe” as a way to teach grammar to middle-schoolers, I will deliver to said person a planet-shattering kick to the junk or junk-equivalent.

    My son asked me about that rule last year, if there was a similar one for semicolons. I told him there was – you put in a semicolon where you fart.

    I told him that was a reminder to how stupid the comma/breathe rule was.

  33. 33.

    Punchy

    September 14, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    Watt ever. Just because ewe think your punkcueayeshun and speling is better then mine doesnt may cue a smarter. Blogger in the end. All it makes you! Is a smartass?

  34. 34.

    Colette

    September 14, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    @cleek: Every day of the Bush presidency was National Ironic Quotes Day, in the sense that every quote from that motherfucker really meant the opposite of its literal meaning.

  35. 35.

    Warren Terra

    September 14, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    @ Cleek, #31
    We “need” a national “ironic” quotes day!

    … or …

    “We” “need” a national “ironic” quotes “day”!

    Stop me before I use “ironic” quotation marks again!

  36. 36.

    wasabi gasp

    September 14, 2009 at 3:27 pm

    There she is! {{{gazonga}}}

  37. 37.

    MK

    September 14, 2009 at 3:29 pm

    @Incertus:

    How’d you go from college freshpeople to middle-schoolers (the impression I got from your previous posts was that you were involved with undergraduate programs)? Or are you some kind of remedial instructor for all ages?

    In other news, all is well in my Zen Garden. I can rest easy now.

  38. 38.

    KRK

    September 14, 2009 at 3:29 pm

    @J.W. Hamner: Yes.

    John Cole is just waiting for National Punch You in the Neck Day. Then everybody had better watch out.

  39. 39.

    The Moar You Know

    September 14, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    Every day should be National Punctuation Day.

  40. 40.

    Eunoia

    September 14, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    In Dschermanie, ve also haff ze umLAUT ;-)

  41. 41.

    freelancer

    September 14, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    Wow%

    This- is like that post by admin/kind of?

  42. 42.

    Crashman06

    September 14, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    National punctuation day is elitist real americans dont celebrate punctuation WOLVERINES ALSO

  43. 43.

    Nate

    September 14, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    Long time reader, first time poster.

    Have to say this made me chortle.

    You’res truly,

    Nate

  44. 44.

    scarshapedstar

    September 14, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    I hope they don’t leave out the peculiar conventions of punctuation in the Deep South, like the use of quotation marks for emphasis, which gives us such hilarities as:

    “Free” Samples

    Weekend “Sale”

    “50% Off” All Items

    Discount “Today Only”

    No matter how long I live here, I’ll always do a double-take when I see signs like that. Do they teach that in school? Where did it come from? And does NOBODY comprehend the subtle irony that almost always results?

  45. 45.

    MikeJ

    September 14, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    I love you period.

  46. 46.

    Incertus

    September 14, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    @MK: I teach the college fresh-people, but they learn about comma usage in middle school, or they’re supposed to anyway. That’s where the initial damage is done, I suspect. It might also come from Education Departments, but I don’t really want to get into that debate.

  47. 47.

    falloch

    September 14, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    As a freelance copy-editor and proofreader, I want you to know that I had a nervous breakdown reading these posts, and am about to retire to a darkened room. On the other hand, if you need a proofreader for any projects, let me know. Teabaggers need not apply…

  48. 48.

    JK

    September 14, 2009 at 3:51 pm

    Apostrophe by Frank Zappa

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkVVtB2vLBo

    Who say rock musicians don’t care about punctuation?

  49. 49.

    MK

    September 14, 2009 at 3:53 pm

    @falloch:

    Can you proofread from right to left? If so, you’re hired.

  50. 50.

    Little Macayla's Friend

    September 14, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    also coencedentaly its internateonal saruh Palen Day. Full detales hear also:
    http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/palin-speech-edit-200907

  51. 51.

    Svensker

    September 14, 2009 at 3:55 pm

    @falloch:

    Teabaggers need not apply…

    I think you meant: Teabagger’s need “not” apply unless there language skill’s are good. If, you asked Sarah Palin also her and I agree would with that. Amirite?

  52. 52.

    slag

    September 14, 2009 at 3:55 pm

    @cleek: That would be the day Fox finally puts quotation marks around News.

  53. 53.

    GBEAR

    September 14, 2009 at 3:55 pm

    @Warren Terra:

    I could “get behind” that.

    HOW ABOUT NATIONAL ALL CAPS DAY!!

  54. 54.

    freelancer

    September 14, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    In honor of National Punctuation Day,

    I give y’all http://wordsplosion.com

    It’s failblog for Grammar Nerds.

  55. 55.

    Punchy

    September 14, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    @JGabriel: [ ] is molarity, beeyotches. Not to be confused with molality or morality.

  56. 56.

    Tax Analyst

    September 14, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    @ #2 The Grand Panjandrum, aye, he said this:
    “We don’t celebrate that holiday in our house because talk Like a Pirate day is more fun and not hard also

    aaaarrrrrrrrrrrr”

    Aye matey, but in me house, we be pronouncin’ it “Haaaarrrrrrrr”. Ye can speak as ye wish, aye, an’ not to be too personal, but a “Haaarrrr” without the “H”, well, I might be mistak’n ye fer some weak old woman or mayhaps a sniv’lin, squallin’ child.

  57. 57.

    Thoughtcrime

    September 14, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    The Great Dane and Dean Martin:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7L02tCNi0I&feature=related

  58. 58.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 14, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    Thursday, September 24 is National Punctuation Day! Please mark you’re calendars.

    I’m hindin’ out till it blows’ o’ver/

  59. 59.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 14, 2009 at 4:02 pm

    HOW ABOUT NATIONAL ALL CAPS DAY!!

    How about word day.

  60. 60.

    tamied

    September 14, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    @Warren Terra: I really “like” the random “quotation” marks you especially “see” on handmade “signs”.

  61. 61.

    Martin

    September 14, 2009 at 4:10 pm

    I really “like” the random “quotation” marks you especially “see” on handmade “signs”.

    Prepare to be entertained.

    Check the blogroll for apostrophe and other fetishes.

  62. 62.

    Interrobang

    September 14, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Yay, an entire day all about meeee!

    MK — I actually can proofread from right to left. I will proofread English in any direction at my normal rates, plus a small inconvenience surcharge. For Hebrew, though, you pay extra. A lot extra. :)

  63. 63.

    MK

    September 14, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    I would like a “National No Silent Letters Day”. That way, I could spell ‘wrong’ ‘rong’ and increase my typing efficiency by 9.8032% when arguing with RedState or Malkin followers.

  64. 64.

    MikeJ

    September 14, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    @MK: Don’t go all shavian on us, I don’t have the fonts installed on this computer.

  65. 65.

    Poopyman

    September 14, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    Svensker,

    I think you meant: Teabagger’s need “not” apply unless there language skill’s are good. If, you asked Sarah Palin also her and I agree would with that. Amirite?

    Shouldn’t there be ironic quotes around “skill’s”? Because the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe.

  66. 66.

    MK

    September 14, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    @Interrobang:

    I don’t believe your claims. Here is a test.

    میرا نام جن کول ہے

  67. 67.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 14, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    Does that mean we’re supposed to punch somebody?

    That would be National PUnchuation Day. Which happens to fall on National Spelling Day. Everything is connected.

  68. 68.

    Poopyman

    September 14, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    If they ever come up with an “International Air Quotes Day”, then I will take that to mean it’s also “National Punch You in the Neck Day” and act accordingly.

  69. 69.

    scav

    September 14, 2009 at 4:20 pm

    Quick, to the footnoterphone! We need Jurisfiction! Bad infestation of bookworm’s here. Not sure if they inevitably lead to grammarsites but you really really don’t want to have to break out the Danvers clones.

  70. 70.

    Crashman06

    September 14, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    Everyone must read takedown of Ayn Rand’s disgusting philosophy of Objectivism.

  71. 71.

    scav

    September 14, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    and how can we have made it to comment 67 without noting that every day is Tunchuation Day here. Or should be.

  72. 72.

    freelancer

    September 14, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    Last night I watched the Rifftrax for Fast & Furious (the 3rd sequel), and nearly peed myself when Kevin Murphy (aka Tom Servo) did a little rap about halfway through the movie.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJPt6KvecDQ

  73. 73.

    The Bearded Blogger

    September 14, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    @ 27 Parmenides is even more confusing without punctuation

    @ 32 I teach writing at a college level. That dumbshit rule may be the death of me

    I had forgotten all about the interrobang. It sucks.

  74. 74.

    Sad_Dem

    September 14, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    National Punctuation Day festivities will include a rap music show in Davenport, Iowa, featuring the year’s hottest “proper punctuation positive” raps, including Dr. Mark’s “Don’t You Comma Splice,” delivered by Dr. Mark himself. But that’s not all! In Washington, D.C., the National Punctuation Museum will have its opening day reception, in which noted copy editors from around the country will lead tour groups around the museum’s “happening” displays, including a diorama on the Lost Em Dash (When We Lose the Em Dash, We Lose Everything) and the Semicolon in World War I. Don’t miss it!

  75. 75.

    MikeJ

    September 14, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    @Sad_Dem: I’m less concerned about the loss of the em dash than I am about the diaeresis. We’re down to just me and The New Yorker. Let’s get coördinated, people!

  76. 76.

    falloch

    September 14, 2009 at 4:51 pm

    ‘Svensker,

    I think you meant: Teabagger’s need “not” apply unless there language skill’s are good. If, you asked Sarah Palin also her and I agree would with that. Amirite?

    Shouldn’t there be ironic quotes around “skill’s”? Because the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe.’

    Y’know folks – I’ve been an a diet for a couple of months now, but that’s it – I’m going off to make apostrophe biscuits (well, cookies to you Amurricans), and eat them while quietly despairing (but also drinking Fairtrade Guatemalan cloud forest coffee) – ain’t no moose in them Guatemalan cloud forests, ex-Gov. Palin!

  77. 77.

    Sad_Dem

    September 14, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    @MikeJ: Sorry, dude, it’s gone, just let it go. The diaeresis belongs to 80s heavy metal bands. You can’t even say the word around the office anymore, at least not from 9-5.

  78. 78.

    slag

    September 14, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    @MikeJ: I may be naive, but I don’t think we’ll be reevaluating use of the diaeresis anytime soon. However, I strongly support preempting the demise of the em dash.

    Oh yeah. It’s on.

  79. 79.

    MikeJ

    September 14, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    When Obama opens the reëducation camps you diaeresis haters will be singing a different tune.

  80. 80.

    Jacquelyn

    September 14, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    Wasn’t it J.D. Salinger who offered up a bouquet of (((())))?

  81. 81.

    MikeJ

    September 14, 2009 at 5:27 pm

    please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

    Which would explain why in Catcher Holden drunkenly calls Sally Hayes and says he wants to see her cdr. (lisp joke – ask a geek.)

  82. 82.

    Sad_Dem

    September 14, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    Obama’s camps with forcéd hand most rude
    will mark improvement to yo’ attitude,
    and learnst there thou wilt of punctuation’s
    sublime measures made upon our nation’s
    speech…

  83. 83.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 14, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    Marsha Blackburn is on Hardball bringing the wingnut whine cause mean libs are calling Tea Baggers racist/

    She wants us to be more civil so the discourse can be respectful/ Well kiss my ass, shitheels are shitheels/ No way to soften that.

  84. 84.

    Steeplejack

    September 14, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    As a former editor, typographer and typesetter, I am moved to tears by this thread. Not in a good way.

  85. 85.

    slag

    September 14, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    @MikeJ: Nice. But I have no particular affinity for the en dash. The em dash–looking oh so lengthy–takes preeminence in my heart.

  86. 86.

    Steeplejack

    September 14, 2009 at 5:58 pm

    @MikeJ:

    “Shavian” is my all-time favorite–and least used–literary adjective. I’ve been waiting years to use “his Shavian wit . . .” somewhere.

  87. 87.

    Steeplejack

    September 14, 2009 at 5:59 pm

    @MikeJ:

    P.S. Don’t know if you saw my comment last week, but I bought Revolver rather than Rubber Soul after talking with you.

  88. 88.

    Steeplejack

    September 14, 2009 at 6:03 pm

    A typographical thing that really gets me is the way people put on their mailboxes “The Smith’s.” See this a lot in almost-rural neighborhoods where the mailboxes are at the street, also in beachside and lakeside “vacation home” communities. Always right next to a house called “Pine Haven” or “Sand Dollar,” depending on the venue.

  89. 89.

    Steeplejack

    September 14, 2009 at 6:05 pm

    @scav:

    Oh noes, not the Danvers clones!

  90. 90.

    Sad_Dem

    September 14, 2009 at 6:05 pm

    Dear General: Your virgules are soo….Laurentian.

  91. 91.

    Steeplejack

    September 14, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    @MikeJ:

    Damn you, sir! Any examination of the Balloon Juice archives will show that I am a dedicated diaeresistician.

  92. 92.

    Steeplejack

    September 14, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    @MikeJ:

    Right on, brö!

  93. 93.

    Jonathan

    September 14, 2009 at 7:11 pm

    i Cant stop counting teh day’s until then’s.

  94. 94.

    PhoenixRising

    September 14, 2009 at 8:35 pm

    freelancer, I curse you. I will never work again.

    Can we “all” agree, that “quotes” and, commas, are tied for the most annoying form of punctuation abuse?

  95. 95.

    Mickey

    September 14, 2009 at 9:30 pm

    Marsha Blackburn Voted FOR: Omnibus Appropriations, Special Education, Global AIDS Initiative, Job Training, Unemployment Benefits, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations, Agriculture Appropriations, U.S.-Singapore Trade, U.S.-Chile Trade, Supplemental Spending for Iraq & Afghanistan, Prescription Drug Benefit, Child Nutrition Programs, Surface Transportation, Job Training and Worker Services, Agriculture Appropriations, Foreign Aid, Vocational/Technical Training, Supplemental Appropriations, UN “Reforms.” Patriot Act Reauthorization, CAFTA, Katrina Hurricane-relief Appropriations, Head Start Funding, Line-item Rescission, Oman Trade Agreement, Military Tribunals, Electronic Surveillance, Head Start Funding, COPS Funding, Funding the REAL ID Act (National ID), Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, Thought Crimes “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, Peru Free Trade Agreement, Economic Stimulus, Farm Bill (Veto Override), Warrantless Searches, Employee Verification Program, Body Imaging Screening.

    Marsha Blackburn Voted AGAINST:
    Ban on UN Contributions, eliminate Millennium Challenge Account, WTO Withdrawal, UN Dues Decrease, Defunding the NAIS, Iran Military Operations defunding Iraq Troop Withdrawal, congress authorization of Iran Military Operations.

    Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
    See her unconstitutional votes at :
    http://tinyurl.com/qhayna
    Mickey

  96. 96.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    September 14, 2009 at 10:32 pm

    Punctshoeation iz overated, just like speling. Moran’s find its eazier to gess becuz that wuznt coverred in home scooling. Its awl moms’ fault!

  97. 97.

    Tattoosydney

    September 15, 2009 at 1:13 am

    What a whole thread on punctuation without any tildes?

    Shãme!

  98. 98.

    Steeplejack

    September 15, 2009 at 1:32 am

    @Tattoosydney:

    Nor any çedillas!

  99. 99.

    Tattoosydney

    September 15, 2009 at 1:58 am

    @Steeplejack:

    A ausência de pontuação gratuita nesta linha é uma causa para muita vergonha e um símbolo do Anglocéntrism deste blogue.

  100. 100.

    Steeplejack

    September 15, 2009 at 2:23 am

    @Tattoosydney:

    Hey, don’t be bringing it with your weird, foreign, accent-inflected lingo here, mister. Next you’ll be telling me that this blog is too, uh, English-centric or something like that. Hmmph.

  101. 101.

    Tattoosydney

    September 15, 2009 at 3:03 am

    @Steeplejack:

    One of the things I love about Portuguese is that you can read it even if you don’t speak a word of it…. and the abundance of tildes.

  102. 102.

    cosanostradamus

    September 15, 2009 at 3:27 am

    Eh, brah. What one Pahtagee say to one nadda Pahtagee?

    Nutting, braddah, dey not speakin’.

    That should get you started on this: “HATE IN THE ALOHA STATE”
    .

  103. 103.

    bago

    September 15, 2009 at 7:48 am

    @JGabriel: Or for indexer notation, which caused a HUGE security hole in Flash for a year or so.

  104. 104.

    bago

    September 15, 2009 at 7:52 am

    @wasabi gasp: I believe that gazongas are a man-handled attempt at recursion using functional calls and this: symbol(.)(.)

  105. 105.

    bago

    September 15, 2009 at 7:57 am

    @bago: Unless you shift your perspective to the left and C only this: (->)(->)

    Undecorated to be sure.

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