Posts Tagged ‘obscure punctuation’
“They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff”*…
Exclamation Comma
“Just because you’re excited about something doesn’t mean you have to end the sentence”
The Interrobang, the Asterism, and a dozen other curious connectors at BuzzFeed’s “14 Punctuation Marks That You Never Knew Existed.”
* Isaac Bashevis Singer
As we resist coming to a full stop, we might send silent birthday wishes to Adolph (later Arthur) “Harpo” Marx; he was born on this date in 1888. Harpo’s signature style, he recalls in his autobiography, was born after reading a review of one of the earliest performances he did with his brothers; it read, in part: “Adolph Marx performed beautiful pantomime which was ruined whenever he spoke.” Thereafter, of course, it was all whistles and horns…
And mallets: Harpo was inducted into the Croquet Hall of Fame in 1979.
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