Brain Broadcast – Punctuation October 29, 2007
Posted by markdykeman in punctuation.Tags: punctuation, tips, writing
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Seriously, I think this is a great little article that should be a mandatory read. They should make high school students read the article, then take a test to demonstrate their mastery of the topic.
Or, students should at least learn and master what they are supposed to learn by the time they graduate from high school.
I blame parents. In ten to twelve years, I’ll be blaming myself. 
I blame global warming! Cuz’ everything gets blamed on global warming…
Global warming was my second choice…
My pet peeve is the misuse of “it’s” and “its”. As a mathematician, I find it hard to comply with the American way of dealing with other punctuation and quotation marks. The American way doesn’t make sense. I like to use semicolons sometimes to solve the “comma splice”. Thanks for pointing to the article.
@ Hungry Mother – I’m SO with you on its and it’s. Even if I did misspell the word today.
I blame parents too!
@ Mimzie – There was a B movie parodied on Mystery Science Theater 3000 called “I Accuse My Parents”. You just reminded me of it. It was ridiculous.
There is a famous blogger out there who cannot get the it’s/its thing down. I even emailed him about it. Please, sir, can you stop doing that?
He’s got it wrong in a post title from today (maybe yesterday). Drives me batty. He’s an Australian, so the ESL angle isn’t an excuse. He should know better, particularly because he writes articles about writing better, including using proper spelling, grammar and punctuation. Ugh.
OK, I feel better now.
Kathy: oooo, don’t get me started…