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Author:  Cybernetic Teenybopper [ Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:16 pm ]
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The Joe wrote:
I'll always remember the semicolons because whenever she wanted to show us how they hold sentence parts apart, she would hold her arms apart and go "whumph!" She did this about fifteen times until we understood. Semicolons rock. WHUMPH!


We will,
we will,
Separate your clauses!
(stomp stomp WHUMPH! Stomp stomp WHUMPH!)
Author:  Did he sell eggs? [ Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:28 am ]
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Brackets will eat you all....
Author:  IantheGecko [ Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:04 am ]
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BazookaJoe wrote:
Me and all of the wiki sysops like the interrobang.

‽ all the way, baby!
Heck yes!
Author:  just a username [ Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:18 am ]
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I...forgot...which...one...I...want. From the look of that you can tell I obviously love Full Stops (periods for you Yanks).
Author:  Dark Grapefruit [ Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:49 pm ]
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Sorely beaten on interobang, so....

heheh, colon. *snicker*
Author:  No Toppings [ Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:55 pm ]
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I like the irony mark.

XD
Author:  thesystemisdown [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:38 pm ]
Post subject:  My fav
I like those two little dots over a's. Do those count?
Author:  Indigo Kitsune [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:57 pm ]
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I have four different punctuation marks that I like just the same.

1. Ellipsis: Because I can use it to create suspense or a cut off thought (showing some emotion sometimes) in my stories.

2. Exclamation: Because what's a good action scene in a story without some screaming and yelling and carrying on? Whoo!!

3. Question: I use this one a lot. If you ask questions in a story, you let the other characters learn more about each other, so they can react with each other better.

4. Quotes: Either ' or ", I like both. I usually use these with sarcasm in my stories, as well as when a character speaks (of course). You can usually tell when I'm being sarcastic because I'll put something in single quotes.

Example:
I just 'love' writing college essays. They're so 'fun'.

Real meaning:
I freakin' hate college essays and they're about as bad as putting needles up under my fingernails.

Well, there you go. My favorites.
Author:  Cybernetic Teenybopper [ Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:46 am ]
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Yes. Quotation marks are perhaps the most useful mars, after periods and commas.
Author:  The Joe [ Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:51 am ]
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thesystemisdown wrote:
I like those two little dots over a's. Do those count?

Nah, umlauts aren't punctuation. Just accents,
Author:  Bugkiss [ Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:54 am ]
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Semicolon FTW. Parenthesis and hyphen are a close second and third, respectively.

That interrobang thing is cool.
Author:  Did he sell eggs? [ Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:58 am ]
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Actually, my new favorite signs are and because it shows where the power is, but lets it all be equal. (Hippie time.) (Punctuation marks not shown because they don't show up.)
Author:  topofsm [ Mon Jan 01, 2007 6:43 am ]
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I guess I like the brackets. Why you ask?

Because they give smilies cool mustaches, and they give them mouths.

:{) :[) :()
Author:  StrongSadSympathizer [ Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:32 pm ]
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I really need to start reading the whole poll before I vote. I voted exclamation point but I definitely overuse the semicolon just because it seems very intelligent and such to do so :D
Author:  Cybernetic Teenybopper [ Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:05 am ]
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topofsm wrote:
I guess I like the brackets. Why you ask?

Because they give smilies cool mustaches, and they give them mouths.

:{) :[) :()


Ooooh. Good point. Me, I like brackets for doing "Grinchy" smiles.

>:}
Author:  Did he sell eggs? [ Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:08 am ]
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Heres a question. Is $ a punctuation mark? Probably not.
Author:  Shwoo [ Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:21 am ]
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I think $ is just a symbol, because it doesn't change the structure of a sentence in any way. Not that I would know.

I voted for semi colons. I blame C++. "My program isn't compiling because it contains a hundred syntax errors! Oh, I forgot the semi colons."

I like the interobang too, but it is unnecessary. Kind of like |. I have no idea what | is for in sentence construction. I only ever use it on wikis. Does anyone know what | is called? I've been pronouncing it "uh". Is it even punctuation?
Author:  Cybernetic Teenybopper [ Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:48 pm ]
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Thank goodness for semicolons, eh? Otherwise the whole digital world would come crashing down around our heads.
Author:  Ju Ju Master [ Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:42 pm ]
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Shwoo wrote:
I have no idea what | is for in sentence construction. I only ever use it on wikis. Does anyone know what | is called? I've been pronouncing it "uh". Is it even punctuation?


Not sure what it's called and I've never seen it in sentences, but in math it shows an absolute value (The distance of a number from zero), like |3| or |x-2|
Author:  Shwoo [ Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:10 am ]
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Oh yeah. I knew that. But I kept thinking of logic when I was trying to figure out if it was used in maths. Which as far as I can remember uses ~, ^ and v.

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Thank goodness for semicolons, eh? Otherwise the whole digital world would come crashing down around our heads.

Or at least the part that's programmed in C++ and related languages.
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