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[redbrunja]

NPR recited On Punctuation on their writer's almanac section today, which totally made me snooty. Oh, of course, you love commas and exclamation marks and ellipses - who doesn't? Those are the easy, slutty punctuation marks that any fool can have, no grace, so subtly, no class.

Not like the crisp grace of a period or the impressive clarity of a well-placed colon.

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[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Speaking of punctuation: Do you know of any good online resources on English punctuation that you, as a native speaker and student, would recommend?

I'm an ESL person who has to write English communication at work, and punctuation is one thing I am never sure about.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to say I don't. Punctuation is one of the few places in language where I am grammatically speaking, pretty damn sure of what I'm doing.