Making fandom safe for... stuff.

[splash_the_cat]

I want to start a new group: People for the Ethical Treatment of Punctuation. There would be protests and daring guerilla raids on mailing lists and livejournals to liberate extraneous exclamation points and question marks from the tyrrany tyranny (hush, riffalike) of the over-eager posters, and to protect the sanctity of the emdash, the ellipsis, and the

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[mrv3000]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,,!@!!!!!!"!"!""`"!!!!!!!!!!

[splash_the_cat]

*jumps MV in a dark alley and beats her with an exclamation point*

[mrv3000]

???????????????

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[poohmusings]

But, Julie that's -- just .............. so, unnecessary!?!!??!!!!!!!!

[riffalike]

"tyranny"

[splash_the_cat]

Good thing I wasn't mocking other people's spelling...

[riffalike]

I wouldn't be a spelling tyrant if I let you get away with it.

[_earthshine_]

While we're nitpicking, I believe the word you were looking for above was ellipsis (plural "ellipses"), not ellipse.

...unless you were referring to writers who are eccentric. (Ha! Eccentric! Math joke! Get it? I'm such a geek.)

[lavidaessueno]

You might be interested in the Third Law of Apostrophe Dynamics, which states that the number of apostrophes in the universe remains constant.

Thus, for every plural formed using an apostrophe, a contraction goes without. For every possessive that loses its puctuation, a present tense verb gains some.

There's also the Steven Stills Rule of Modifiers, but we'll save that for the advanced class *g*

[mrv3000]

So for every apostrophe, there's an equal and opposite apostrophe?

[lavidaessueno]

Exactly!

*pastes gold star on your forehead*

[splash_the_cat]

Use duct tape. She likes that.

[dwinn]

*laugh*

[woodface]

You comma killer, you.

[lytarules]

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*squish*
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No commas!

[woodface]

But Julie has a special axe!

[mrgeddylee]

She doesn't need an axe. She has a clue-by-four.