Punctuation is a thing! Just sayin'.
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Fit50something
Level 7
Feb 8, 2020
7
A humorous look at the importance of punctuation:
Let's eat Grandpa!
Let's eat, Grandpa!
WHO’S SUPPLYING WHO?
Say ‘NO’ to Drugs from the NMB Police D.A.R.E Officers.
Oops! That one missing comma turned police officers into drug dealers.
LiterateHiker
Level 9
Feb 8, 2020
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KKGator
Level 9
Feb 8, 2020
7
. . . and the apostrophes' proper placement !
(see what I did there ?) -- and some alliteration (kinda) as well ! 
FearlessFly
Level 9
Feb 8, 2020
4
Love it!
I'm a big fan of punctuation. It's very important in programming languages, too.
BitFlipper
Level 8
Feb 8, 2020
5
I didnt know that naturally
In Python whitespace is considered punctuation ! 
@FearlessFly in REXX, whitespace indicates concatenation. That still bites me in the ass in every other language.
For the sake of a comma, "Let's eat, Granny!", could be a completely different experience!
Normanbites
Level 7
Feb 8, 2020
5
That's right. Let's eat granny! Yum
I bet Norman would remove the comma!
@Geoffrey51 I bet he would!
. . . I'm partial to the elipsis (and the parentheticals)
FearlessFly
Level 9
Feb 8, 2020
4
@Gwendolyn2018 . . . mea culpa, I am not worthy 
...And the serial comma is proper and good.
Lunk
Level 4
Feb 8, 2020
4
Agreed, it can aid context and understanding.
Lunk:
Yep! I look at it like a computer program. The commas delimit the data and within the commas you can have groups of things using logical words like 'and'.
I've become obsessed with the serial comma!
I thought it was called the Oxford comma.
Lunk:
@BitFlipper That's just the name brand.
@BitFlipper I believe you are correct.
Lunk:
If you wiki 'Oxford comma' it redirects you to 'serial comma'.
Shhhhh! (Should be an apostrophe after ‘n’ )
I agree entirely.
Geoffrey51
Level 8
Feb 8, 2020
4
Oops. Added the apostrophe. You're so right.
@Wildflower No probs
#!;
It's killing me not saying "just saying"... 
Paul4747
Level 8
Feb 9, 2020
3
Ohhhh, I got you going!
@Wildflower You know how you do, beautiful 
Ironically, living in a culture that mainly wants to express itself in textual format, you'd think they would be better at it. But then again, they probably learned from their parents...
ownworstenemy
Level 7
Feb 8, 2020
3
The almighty They
My kids think I’m mad if I put a period at the end of a sentence when I text. I don’t even know how that’s a thing!
That might be true, but I'd rather argue about god than commas... I'm just saying.
godlessinal
Level 7
Feb 8, 2020
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You go right ahead, I'll excuse you from this thread now. I prefer not to argue about God nor politics.
Varn:
Part of my arguing against gods were countless letters to editors (LTE’s). Some newspaper editors would leave the submissions of those they didn’t agree with ..confusing and difficult to read, often due to their lack of commas.
Think I was behind the gym eating my girl the day that was passed out but no regrets.
HankSherman
Level 8
Feb 8, 2020
2
Smh
@Wildflower well....it was a looonnggg time ago. So I might just be wishful thinking.
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