While we applaud their ardor, and find charm in the image of budding Charles Bronsons wreaking havoc in the service of punctuation, only time will tell if they will become known as literary folk heroes — or just bloggers trawling for a book deal.
Winter and spring were a blur of proofreading the Dream House galleys -- every word and punctuation mark, six times (by the time the book went to print, I probably could've told you to pick a word, any word, and I would've been able to turn to the page where it was written --and pulling together promotional material at the behest of the publicist.
While this is great for my productivity, now I'm prone to dictate punctuation all the time.
As she points out, in earlier times punctuation did a lot more work than it does today, and some of the work involved adjusting the timing in sentences.
In The Motherf**ker With the Hat, the "f" word, along with a panoply of shocking verbiage is deployed; an arsenal of language that makes you titter until the words themselves stop meaning what they mean, becoming pause, punctuation, and, at times, punishment.
Many times punctuation is a good place to have a pause.
Punctuated equilibrium is the rule in tech, and we haven't seen any decisive punctuation in quite some time.
Four complex traits were investigated i.e. coat color (CC) (a score from light to dark), weight at 10 weeks (WT), recovery from ear punctuation (REP), and freezing time during cue (FDC).
For more recent large-scale urban swine flu programs, the delay times to punctuation were less than two years, compared to the six year delay time shown in Figure 4 for the small-scale Army program.
He decided to write only in standard German, only in the lower case, and at times without punctuation.
