Friday, September 24, 2010

National Punctuation Day

Imagine the literary world without punctuation it would be a difficult world to navigate because every thought would be a long run on sentence with no organization of idea or structure everything would be a nightmare to read imagine reading the newspaper a magazine or novel and not being able to understand the natural pauses or construction of speech you would feel as if the writer never took a breath and I think the reader would find little relaxation when following the text I do not even know how paragraphs would fit in what would be the purpose of a paragraph if there was no end to a sentence if I was writing dialogue this could be problematic as well  darling said Joe how is your project at work coming along not well said Sue thank you for asking how is your broken foot doing not well said Joe I think gangrene has set in oh you dont say said Sue should we call the doctor not sure said Joe the pain is tremendous but I think I can shoulder through you dont say said Sue I hear little panic in your voice and I certainly do not see urgency in your text nor do I said Joe guess the gangrene will go away by itself I feel much calmer now thank you for your concern youre welcome said Sue describing people places or things would be challenging as well because the handy hyphen would be nonexistent and harddriving people could never be adequately described this posting has been an exercise in concentration because it is not easy to type without using punctuation and the subsequent spacing and capitalization that accompanies it I am glad that National Punctuation Day only comes once a year

Ancora imparo

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