*sighs*

[conuly]

So, apparently my English professor doesn't like the concept of logical punctuation. And she stared at me as she said it, too, so I must've messed up in the essay.

Honestly, it's LOGICAl punctuation. I don't *care* if it's not the standard, the standard won't change until we make it change. Just sitting around saying "gee, I wish there were a better way" isn't going to get us anywhere. Siblings! Rise up! Throw off the shackles of stupid convention, and fight the oppression of illogical punctuation! We will punctuate in the classrooms, we will punctuate in the chatrooms, and in our own private journals. We will punctuate at all costs, and we will never surrender! Today - punctuation! Tomorrow - spelling!

Comments

[tungol.livejournal.com]

Hi, I don't know you, I just came across your journal through the Linguaphiles community.

Yay for logical punctuation! I didn't know that was a term for it, or that there ws any sort of movement for it, but for quite some time I've been punctuating that way when I think I can get away with it. It just doesn't seem right to quote punctuation that isn't really part of the quote.

[conuly]

1. There's a very tiny movement of obsessive freaks for it, yes.
2. No, it's not right. Well. I mean, it is, obviously, but it's still wrong.