Oh, woe is me, I know not
where the commas are supposed to go. I'm almost finished
with Eats, Shoots and Leaves and am more confused
than ever about commas.
Surely nobody really gets that
upset about missing apostrophes on signs let alone that
rapturous about semicolons! She could have skipped the
whole "we won't have books much longer because the
Internet is killing them" thing because it's been done to
death for a decade yet the book remains the killer app
for reading -- with or without semicolons between
complete thoughts. And while it is a shame that computer
keyboards don't have an em dash but did the typewriter
keyboard have one?
I may have to give up my
writing/editing career for a career as a tugboat captain.
At least I'd know where you're supposed to put the
ships!
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Today's Reading
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss,
Walden Pond by W. Barksdale Maynard
This Year's
Reading
2004
Booklist
Today's Starting
Pitcher
Curt Schilling
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