tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post5461804859574395801..comments2023-11-05T05:01:58.563-05:00Comments on Ward Six: Baby's first rebellionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-40982838965792230072010-04-13T09:28:04.844-05:002010-04-13T09:28:04.844-05:00This post reminds me of a poem I once wrote in col...This post reminds me of a poem I once wrote in college, where all I used were punctuations. It was really fun!AltSunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02091271275548692502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-68603226122357227662010-04-13T08:31:41.474-05:002010-04-13T08:31:41.474-05:00The Oatmeal is great!The Oatmeal is great!rmellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133206908895131438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-24193593965341464042010-04-12T15:41:20.894-05:002010-04-12T15:41:20.894-05:00The Oatmeal guide is actually helpful. For me, bri...The Oatmeal guide is actually helpful. For me, bright colors and bears are essential to remembering basic rules of grammar.zach colehttp://sporkpress.com/weeklies/prose/archives/00000065.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-49779112867710052812010-04-12T14:13:19.009-05:002010-04-12T14:13:19.009-05:00Of course, I've been on the other end of the s...Of course, I've been on the other end of the snotty-know-it-all stick, too, having taught a few SKIAs in my time. And being a mother. It's amazing how many times I find myself saying, "A comma goes there because I SAY A COMMA GOES THERE and I'm your mother!"<br /><br />Actually, I'm joking about that last bit. Our kids have a pretty good grasp of punctuation. The older guy can use a semicolon, something I didn't figure out until graduate school. He said he read about it on the website "The Oatmeal."rmellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133206908895131438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-19481773231946653202010-04-12T13:38:52.327-05:002010-04-12T13:38:52.327-05:00I used the word "cloyed" in a sensory as...I used the word "cloyed" in a sensory assignment in my ninth-grade composition class. My teacher circled it, saying that it wasn't a word. I was just enough of a punk to go get the dictionary and show it to her.TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13088461995698326658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-6009191452004058042010-04-12T11:34:21.764-05:002010-04-12T11:34:21.764-05:00I wonder if such teachers aren’t in fact very good...I wonder if such teachers aren’t in fact very good for us, in a perverse way. Punctuation is a set of conventional notations (added to the very few original alphabets only gradually). All conventions work to some degree because people agree about what they mean. You, can’t break the? rules without: having—an excellent sense of what! each; mark can do. Combinations like ?!!? work because they stretch what’s already understood. Your teacher, by thinking in black and white, made you mad but also played the Dark Ages to your Renaissance and Enlightenment. As for your copyeditor, he or she did a bad thing by not contacting you right away and saying, “You know, I’d like to introduce a bunch of commas . . . what do you think?”Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08700077737827482112noreply@blogger.com