PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoPunctuation is importantlemmy.worldimagemessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up1412arrow-down14
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minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days ago Punctuation is important Have you even seen Reddit or Lemmy? Hell, look at a news site: they barely know to put a space between words. What are we hoping about commas, hyphens, or - god forbid - semi-colons?
minus-squareProfessorProteus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoNot to dogpile on you (I am a fellow grammar-enjoyer), but on either side of “god forbid” you used hyphens—with spaces—in the place of em dashes 🙂 I wish more people were as passionate about language as you seem to be.
Have you even seen Reddit or Lemmy? Hell, look at a news site: they barely know to put a space between words. What are we hoping about commas, hyphens, or - god forbid - semi-colons?
Not to dogpile on you (I am a fellow grammar-enjoyer), but on either side of “god forbid” you used hyphens—with spaces—in the place of em dashes 🙂
I wish more people were as passionate about language as you seem to be.