Comments on: MM: Period

By: --Deb

--Deb — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:53:47 +0000

I think that emoticons live little lives of their own and not necessarily restricted to the rules that actual words have to abide. My general feeling? That they can either be "inside" a sentence, and thus followed by a period, or that they can be "outside" the sentence and just sit there all by themselves. --Deb's last blog post..Linguist vs Grammarian–The Fallout

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:00:33 +0000

I should be interested to know your opinion on this topic if you were ever in the position to be using an ‘emoticon’. Would you put it before or after the full stop? Or would you omit the full stop completely and just use the emoticon?

As a frequent patron of Instant Messaging services I quite often ponder the grammatical legalities of such a situation ^_^. See what I did there? Also there. (Oh no, a sentence fragment!)

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Punctuality Rules! » Blog Archive » MM: Question — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:27:07 +0000

[...] my brain, trying to think of a punctuation mark we haven’t discussed yet. We’ve covered periods, commas, exclamation points, quotation marks, colons, semi-colons, and hyphens, not to mention [...]

By: Melissa Donovan

Melissa Donovan — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:46:49 +0000

Well, I have to admit, all those other punctuation marks are pretty fun compared to periods. That's why it's so tempting to use them... Melissa Donovan's last blog post..Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone and Pushing Your Boundaries

By: --Deb

--Deb — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:58:42 +0000

It’s so hard to remember everything!

(See? There I go, using something other than a period again….)

(grin)

By: Melissa Donovan

Melissa Donovan — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:03:33 +0000

Ellipses in emails... that was a hard habit for me to break. I also notice overuse of commas (i.e. run-on sentences) are fairly common. This is a good reminder Deb! Melissa Donovan's last blog post..Metaphor Creativity