Aug
22
National Punctuation Day that is (and, again this year, I didn’t get my shopping done on time).
I’m not sure why we need a National Punctuation Day, but the Web site is kind of cool. You can click on all those dots, dashes, curly things and such to get a brief lesson on how they should be used, and some suitable quotations, such as this one:
“Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own jokes.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nice resource for those not sure when to use a dash instead of a comma, or for those who
