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Nick East (Indie Writer)<p>I'd really like to meet Nelson Mandela the 800-year-old demi-god and dildo collector, he seems fun 😜😂 </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writers</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writingcommunity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writingcommunity</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writing" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writing</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/humour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>humour</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/indieauthors" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>indieauthors</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/authorindiespeak" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>authorindiespeak</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingMemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingMemes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Memes</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grammar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Oxford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oxford</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Comma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Comma</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Authors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieAuthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieAuthor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieBooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writerdons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writerdons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writinglife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p>
David Megginson<p>If you see something written with en-dashes and em-dashes, you know it involved <del>artificial intelligences</del> <u>competent writers and editors.</u></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/editing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>editing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a></p>
Dave Rahardja<p>I like to put U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE between numbers and units, such as:</p><p>2,345 mi<br>3.95 kg<br>25.7 °C</p><p>These diminutive slivers add just enough space between numbers and letters to make them easier to read, but still keep them together.</p><p>I also like to use the script ℓ for liters to keep it legible.</p><p>1.0 gal ≈ 3.79 ℓ</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>english</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/nerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nerd</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cyberplace.social/@WiteWulf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>WiteWulf</span></a></span> </p><p>The amusing thing is that if you go to the actual NYT article (which has two other people in its byline) you can see the copy editing, elisions, and omissions that turned the original article's correctly punctuated first paragraph into that mess of a Twitter post.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BadJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadJournalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a></p>
Dave Rahardja<p>Spaces around en-dashes, or no?</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>english</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/nerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nerd</span></a></p>
Wendy Palmer<p>Love a semi-colon.</p><p>Love a pair of em-dashes (yes, I know), though actually I use the space—en-dash—space formation these days to match with my single quotation mark*.</p><p>And on this WIP, I’ve finally given in and allowed brackets too**.</p><p>I also have a single occasion in the WIP on which it would very apt to use a footnote*** but I haven’t decided if it’ll pass the first draft yet or not.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/@grammargirl/114780005280908908" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zirk.us/@grammargirl/114780005</span><span class="invisible">280908908</span></a></p><p>*If you pay attention to punctuation in trad-published books, and why would anyone, you might notice a general pattern of US = double quotation marks and em-dash, UK = single quotation marks and spaced en-dash. I was AU mix-and-matching, but the wrong way round (AU books sometimes use double quotations but en-dashes) until I couldn’t take it anymore 😂 </p><p>**Funny how the subconscious brain works: my POV MC is quiet and keeps a lot of secrets, OF COURSE HE THINKS IN BRACKETS…</p><p>***yes, a Terry Pratchett reference</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/MoreFunThanRealNewsRightNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoreFunThanRealNewsRightNow</span></a></p>
Candace Robb<p>This is a delicious tribute to the sensual semi-colon. Enjoy! </p><p>"Witness this gorgeous specimen by Christopher Marlowe, in ‘Hero and Leander’:</p><p> Come thither; As she spake this, her toong tript.<br> For vnawares (Come thither) from her slipt.<br> And sodainly her former colour chang’d.<br> And here and there her eies through anger rang’d.</p><p>That slight, erotic pause after the first ‘thither’; it’s heavenly."<br><a href="https://historians.social/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>words</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-semicolon-had-its-moment-that-moment-is-over/#comments-container" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">spectator.co.uk/article/the-se</span><span class="invisible">micolon-had-its-moment-that-moment-is-over/#comments-container</span></a></p>
Of Bookish Things<p>Could the Semicolon Die Out? Recent Analysis Finds a Decline in Its Usage in British Literature and Confusion Among U.K. Students</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Semicolon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Semicolon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BritishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/UnitedKingdom_education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom_education</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/could-the-semicolon-die-out-a-recent-study-finds-a-marked-decline-in-its-usage-180986689/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/</span><span class="invisible">could-the-semicolon-die-out-a-recent-study-finds-a-marked-decline-in-its-usage-180986689/</span></a></p>
Stan Carey<p>Reading a university style guide that recommends "eleven year-old children".</p><p>This does not mean what they think it means, but on the plus side it could lead to some wildly amusing data.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/hyphens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hyphens</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/StyleGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StyleGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/orthography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>orthography</span></a></p>
Stan Carey<p>I don't think any punctuation marks need protecting, by the way. The Apostrophe Protection Society, for example, is a dogmatic organisation with an appetite for shaming people and no apparent understanding of the apostrophe's diverse history and continuing mutability.</p><p>Punctuation patterns ebb and flow and change with the times. If people see the need for a particular mark, they'll keep using it.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/semicolon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>semicolon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/apostrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apostrophe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/prescriptivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prescriptivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a></p>
Stan Carey<p>In all the recent fuss over the semicolon's apparent decline (see e.g. <a href="https://theconversation.com/semicolons-are-becoming-increasingly-rare-their-disappearance-should-be-resisted-257019" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/semicolons</span><span class="invisible">-are-becoming-increasingly-rare-their-disappearance-should-be-resisted-257019</span></a> ), I've seen no mention of Cecelia Watson's book, which I reviewed here: <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/book-review-semicolon-by-cecelia-watson/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stancarey.wordpress.com/2019/0</span><span class="invisible">8/12/book-review-semicolon-by-cecelia-watson/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/semicolon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>semicolon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookReview</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Furthering<p>Decline in semicolon usage, and thank goodness, not least because people generally don't know how to use them correctly.</p><p>I try to get my non-native English-speaking colleagues to cut down on their use and to please do not use them in bullet lists.</p><p>"Too academic for our purposes!" I say.</p><p>Although a careful, considered semicolon, a literary semicolon, I can get behind.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/18/marked-decline-semicolon-use-english-books-study-suggests" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/science/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ay/18/marked-decline-semicolon-use-english-books-study-suggests</span></a></p><p><a href="https://convo.casa/tags/semicolons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>semicolons</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a></p>
Wim Van Mierlo<p>Stop the decline!</p><p>Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests | Language | The Guardian</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/18/marked-decline-semicolon-use-english-books-study-suggests" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/science/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ay/18/marked-decline-semicolon-use-english-books-study-suggests</span></a></p><p>&gt; Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a></p>
Nick East (Indie Writer)<p>Punctuation is the writers only natural enemy 😜😂 </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writers</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writingcommunity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writingcommunity</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writing" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writing</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/humour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>humour</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/indieauthors" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>indieauthors</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/authorindiespeak" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>authorindiespeak</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingMemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingMemes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Memes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Authors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieAuthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieAuthor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieBooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writerdons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writerdons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writinglife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/@Legit_Spaghetti" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Legit_Spaghetti</span></a></span> </p><p>I don't know what you are complaining about.</p><p>Looking at the image: The single elephant and beach are in it, as requested; and the beach is definitely not within the elephant, but indeed is without.</p><p>Yes, I have indeed experienced Alexander's hymn "There is a green hill far away". Many, many times.</p><p>Did you try "sans"?</p><p>You could try to see what it makes of the first two lines of the hymn.</p><p>(-:</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/elephants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elephants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EnglishPrepositions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishPrepositions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ThereIsAGreenHillFarAway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThereIsAGreenHillFarAway</span></a></p>
The Christian Science Monitor<p>Our writer long avoided exclamation points. Then, the pandemic hit and the lively punctuation became a signal flare in a cold, gray sea. Now he loves their zing! Their fizz! Their pop! <a href="https://flipboard.com/tag/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.com/tag/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2025/0402/exclamation-mark-punctuation-grammar-question-mark?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_medium=activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-</span><span class="invisible">Home-Forum/2025/0402/exclamation-mark-punctuation-grammar-question-mark?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_medium=activitypub </span></a></p><p>Posted into Commentary <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@csmonitor/commentary-he1to8sqz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>commentary-csmonitor</span></a></span></p>
Third spruce tree on the left<p>Grammarly: we miss you! Did you take a writing break? </p><p>me: it's not you, it's my new IT department won't allow <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Grammarly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grammarly</span></a> and Microsoft Editor sucks donkey balls; I guess having proper <a href="https://mas.to/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a>, grammar and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> in our product <a href="https://mas.to/tags/documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>documentation</span></a> isn't a priority here at InniTrobe.</p>
Fictionable<p>'Punctuation controls two things: logical separation and breath… Writers weigh each role differently.'</p><p>Matthew Zipf on Renata Adler's commas:</p><p><a href="https://theamericanscholar.org/in-the-matter-of-the-commas" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theamericanscholar.org/in-the-</span><span class="invisible">matter-of-the-commas</span></a></p><p><a href="https://lor.sh/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/commas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commas</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Stan Carey<p>There are exceptions. Halfway through Patrick deWitt's first novel "Ablutions" is a sentence 207 words long that made me want to stand and cheer.</p><p>Not to be all leave-it-to-the-pros, but you do need to have certain skills to attempt a sentence of such length and hope to keep readers firmly on track.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/PatrickDeWitt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PatrickDeWitt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Stan Carey<p>Sometimes four short sentences are better than a single 140-word behemoth built with creaky semicolons and sticky tape. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AmEditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmEditing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/copyediting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copyediting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/semicolons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>semicolons</span></a></p>