Truss 3

Chelsea + Exclamation Mark = Love
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelseaOliver/2008/03/el150-well-get-along-fine-exclamation-mark.html

I love texting.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelseaOliver/2008/03/el150_its_true_i_missuse_the_d.html

Wow... you're really working ahead, Chelsea. That's great!

“Most of us can’t remember a time before we learned to punctuate.” (Truss, Eats. Shoots, & Leaves p134)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelicaGuzzo/2008/03/punctuation.html

“There is a huge amount of ignorance concerning the use of quotation marks” (Truss Eats, Shoots, & Leaves p149).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelicaGuzzo/2008/03/quation_marks.html

"...grammarians have warned us to be wary of the exclamation mark...it still shouts, flashes like neon, and jumps up and down"(Truss 137). http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianaCox/2008/04/wow.html

"It's a funny old mark, the hyphen. Always has been. People have argues for its abolition for years..."(Truss 168).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianaCox/2008/04/i_can_never_decide_when_i_need.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/TiffanyGilbert/2008/04/my_little_add_brother.html

"In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who get over-excited and breaks things and laughs too loudly" (Truss 138).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/TiffanyGilbert/2008/04/mystery_endings.html

"The ellipsis is the black hold of the punctuation universe..." (Truss 165).

It's a two for one special again, but you HAVE to read the seond part-it's a really nice little traumatizing story! Who's curious now?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MadelynGillespie/2008/04/garbage_garbage_everywhere_and.html

"...the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets over-excited and breaks things and laughs too loudly." (Truss 138)

"The future of books is a large subject and perhaps this is not a suitable place to pursue it. We hear every day that the book is dead and that even the dimmest child can find 'anything' on the internet." (Truss 178)

“…grammarians have warned us to be wary of the exclamation mark, mainly because, even when we try to muffle it with brackets (!), it still shouts, flashes like neon, and jumps up and down” (Truss 137).

Oops! I forgot my link, so here it is:
“…grammarians have warned us to be wary of the exclamation mark, mainly because, even when we try to muffle it with brackets (!), it still shouts, flashes like neon, and jumps up and down” (Truss 137).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2008/04/exclamation_mark_phobia.html

“As for our writing personally to each other, how often do you hear people complain that emails subtract the tone of voice; that it’s hard to tell if someone is joking or not? Clicking on ‘send’ has its limitations as a system of subtle communication. Which is why, of course, people use so many dashes and italics and capitals (‘I AM joking!’) to compensate. That’s why they came up with the emoticon, too...” (Truss 192).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2008/04/truss_stop_blaming_everything.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2008/04/the_really_active_and_disrupti.html
"In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets over-excited and breaks things and laughs too loudly."

-From page 137-138 of Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

If you like emoticons, check out my blog:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2008/04/the_first.html
"You will know all about emoticons. Emoticons are the proper name for smileys. And a smiley is, famously, this:

:-)

Forget the idea of selecting the right words in the right order and channeling the reader's attention by means of artful pointing...Anyone interested in punctuation has a dual reason to feel aggrieved about smileys, because not only are they a paltry substitute for expressing oneself properly; they are also designed by people who evidently thought the punctuation marks on the standard keyboard cried out for an ornamental function."

-From pages 192-193 of Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

A fun blog entry! (I do love my exclamation point!)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2008/04/a_fun_blog_entry_i_do_love_my.html

I finally saw a piece of writing that made me gasp out in horror. Oh Truss, what are you doing to me!

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StephanieWytovich/2008/04/i_finally_had_a_gasp_of_horror_1.html

"Churchill said hyphens were "a blemish, to be avoided wherever possible." Yet there will always be a problems about getting rid of the hyphen: if it's not extra-marital sex (with a hypen), it is perhaps extra marital sex, which is quite a different bunch of coconuts (Truss 168-9)."

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StephanieWytovich/2008/04/hyphens_the_english_gods_gift.html

Grammar - you menace!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RichelleDodaro/2008/04/grammar_you_menace.html

“We perhaps remember learning to read and spell, but not the moment when we found out that adding the symbol ‘!’ to a sentence somehow changed the tone of voice it was read in.” (134 Eats, Shoots & Leaves)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KayleyDardano/2008/04/_what_why_am_i_yelling.html
Wouldn't you like to know?
“It comes at the end of the sentence…” (139 eats, Shoots & leaves)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KayleyDardano/2008/04/_what_why_am_i_yelling.html
Wouldn't you like to know?
“It comes at the end of the sentence…” (139 eats, Shoots & leaves)

"The Spanish Academy, however, in 1754 ratified the rather marvellous and flamboyant idea of complementing terminal question marks and exaclamation marks with upside-down versions at the beginnings, thus:

¡Lord, love a duck!

¿Doesn't Spanish look different from everything else now we've done this?" (Truss 142-143)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LaurenMiller/2008/04/question_mark_exclamation_poin.html

"Like the exclamation mark, however, italics should be used sparingly for the purposes of emphasis--partly because they are a confession of stylistic failure, and partly because readers glancing at a page of type might unconsciously clock the italicised bit before starting their proper work of beginning in the top left-hand corner" (Truss 147).

Do you like italics? Then read this:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LaurenMiller/2008/04/i_tried_to_write_this_title_in.html

ADD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessieFarine/2008/04/add.html

George Bernard Shaw is the bom.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessieFarine/2008/04/shaw_is_the_bom.html

"The way this symbol '!' turns 'I can't believe it' into 'I can't believe it!' is the sort of dizzying convention" (Truss 153).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaitlinMonier/2008/04/exclamation_mark_creates_tone.html

"American grammatarians insisting that, if a sentence ends with a phrase in inverted commas, all the terminal punctuation for the sentence must come tidily inside the speech marks, even when it doesn't make sense.
Sophia asked Lord Fellamar if he was 'out of his sense'. (British)
Sophia asked Lord Fellamar if he was 'out of his sense.' (American)" (Truss 153)"
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaitlinMonier/2008/04/american_grammatarians_insisti.html