Sly glances are noticed.

Tiny acts of kindness are noticed.

Make sure what you’re doing is for the positive, because it will get noticed.

Great post blog David, again.

xx

The English language is quite adequate already, I think. If they need a thesis project maybe they could finally give us the singular gender-neutral pronoun we’ve always needed.

The non-intrusive nature of the period is comparatively calming.

There is also a highly boring historic reason:

Originally, no language used punctuation. It is interesting for me, at least, to note that most pause-associated punctuation (periods, commas, colons, and cetera) originated from plays or oral performances. Therefore, those marks provide order and are popularly accepted.

The Bible was the text that propelled this form of punctuation into the masses for Romance Languages. It needed to be read out loud, and an Eats, Shoots, and Leaves situation with the Bible would be dire indeed.

Because of the serious nature of the Bible, exclamation points were not used and are today not as popular, in any language expect that of teenage texting. The double-negative connotation of teens and unpopularity explain how annoying it can be.

This is worse though: linguists in the University of Michigan wish to introduce punctuation to express sarcasm. A circle with a dot in the middle, apparently. We can only pray it will not enter the Bible.

This post was a way to teach such lesson in a way I’d have never thought of. Thumbs up for thinking outside the box :)

Keep up the good work!

Mat
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