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This is not a self link.

?! — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:39:16 -0800

? , !, & @ .

By: freebird

freebird — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:40:58 -0800

Self Link! :)

By: ORthey

ORthey — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:46:25 -0800

National fucking punctuation day! Shit.

By: McSly

McSly — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:47:00 -0800

By: bac

bac — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:51:35 -0800

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:56:41 -0800

By: Specklet

Specklet — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:06:00 -0800

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:12:14 -0800

— ...

By: scratch

scratch — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:13:06 -0800

Dot dash. Also, those registered trademark symbols drive me insane.

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:16:35 -0800

By: Speck

Speck — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:17:40 -0800

‽‽‽

By: jasper411

jasper411 — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:25:16 -0800

A friend is celebrating by having her period.

By: chasing

chasing — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:34:21 -0800

⁂§...

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:38:25 -0800

semi colons are my favourite puctuation mark because they allow me to become enraged when peoples game attempts at utilising them fall short of my exacting but half witted standards enthusiasm in puctuation is a double edged sword all punctuation herein removed and donated to the national puctuation day fund

By: yipyop

yipyop — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:43:58 -0800

On a related note, I just learned (via Typophile's forums) that cartoon swearing, ie "#@!*%" is called maledicta.

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:53:05 -0800

(on a tangentially related note to yipyop's comment - what is the grammatical construct of a word with another inserted in the middle called? Generally an obscenity. Like "absa-cocking-lutely" or "un-chuffing-believable" or other such puerile amusements.)

By: jlub

jlub — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:54:15 -0800

Mr. Period

By: markovitch

markovitch — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:58:15 -0800

"semi colons are my favourite puctuation mark because they allow me to become enraged when peoples game attempts at utilising them fall short of my exacting but half witted standards enthusiasm in puctuation is a double edged sword" "Never use semi-colons; the only people who use semi-colons are those who want to prove to the world they know how." --Kurt Vonnegut

By: ?!

?! — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:04:02 -0800

ORthey: No, National Expletive Deleted Day was August 9th.

By: Hal Mumkin

Hal Mumkin — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:04:57 -0800

Ninja Pirate: tmesis, or maybe infix, depending I suppose on the nature of the insertion

By: bat

bat — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:05:26 -0800

() and {}

By: nobody

nobody — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:06:23 -0800

NinjaPirate, it's called an infix (see "abso-bloomin-lutely").

By: Hal Mumkin

Hal Mumkin — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:07:10 -0800

diacope would also appear to be a synonym

By: ScottUltra

ScottUltra — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:07:31 -0800

@!#?@!, I thought this was going to be a post about Q*Bert.

By: spock

spock — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:08:46 -0800

yipyop: Interesting. The term "maledicta" is not found in the dictionary (at least the OED or dictionary.com) but Wikipedia has it as a magazine which is worth a FPP of its own: http://www.sonic.net/maledicta/ In fact it was, quite a while ago: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/25167 (via WolfDaddy) Never would have found it without your mention.

By: nobody

nobody — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:09:13 -0800

On post-view: Ooh, "tmesis" is a lovely word. (on preview this time: Now "diacope" is just crazy talk.)

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:15:03 -0800

By: 40 Watt

40 Watt — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:28:45 -0800

By: grouse

grouse — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:37:05 -0800

∰

By: kika

kika — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:40:41 -0800



By: eatitlive

eatitlive — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:48:19 -0800

You know...tmesis is quite common in Homer, and in Greek the semicolon is a question mark. Friggin' weird, huh;

By: rafter

rafter — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:01:18 -0800

tmesis, or maybe infix, depending I suppose on the nature of the insertion My English/Linguistics prof called this expletive infixation, but Wikipedia nitpicks. Hooray for the m-dash — it's my favorite and most overused punctuation mark. M-dash: when a comma just won't do.

By: cenoxo

cenoxo — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:01:35 -0800

One . in 128 pages. Read it and weep...

By: rafter

rafter — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:08:10 -0800

One . in 128 pages. Read it and weep... Just (silently) reading the first couple pages on Amazon makes me feel short-of-breath. Where do you put it down when it's bed-time? On a related note, one of my favorite novels is sprinkled with page-long marathon sentences — but only where they really count.

By: dame

dame — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:20:00 -0800

Em-dash: when you don't know how to use a colon or semi-colon. I love love love punctuation (even the em-dash, when used well & not lazily). In fact, I have an ampersand tattoo and a semi-colon looms in my future. I cannot type more, because I am so thrilled by this holiday.

By: dame

dame — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:21:16 -0800

Oh, and screw Vonnegut. Semi-colons have nuance, my friend, nuance!

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:41:33 -0800

What is this, a semicolonoscopy?

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:49:46 -0800

If God had wanted us to use semi-colons, he would have given us punctuation. Used correctly they're like writers' masonic greetings. And Hal Mumkin, tmesis, yes. If only I had a worthy diacritical mark, I'd use it at this point in order to express my gratitüd.

By: Anders Levant

Anders Levant — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:53:37 -0800

@#*! I was hoping this was a Doctor Blasphemy post!

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:05:58 -0800

Magnificent post and thread—thanks, ?!! (I especially appreciate the linked history of Greek punctuation.) Also, I agree with dame: screw Vonnegut.

By: Colloquial Collision

Colloquial Collision — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:14:36 -0800

Huzzah.

By: brandz

brandz — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:37:46 -0800

well, i have an apostrophe in my last name. i always thought that was neat.

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:32:35 -0800

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:33:36 -0800

[!]

By: squidlarkin

squidlarkin — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:40:54 -0800

Speaking of §, what the hell is it? I'd google it, but, y'know.

By: musicinmybrain

musicinmybrain — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:12:23 -0800

The "§" character is a section sign.

By: sciurus

sciurus — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 05:44:30 -0800

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