Sunday, June 10, 2007

an experiment

im rather fond of punctuation and am a great proponent of its proper use it helps us communicate better and helps us understand each other better assuming tha tyou see communication and comprehension as two separate things as i do so as an experiment i decided that i shall not use punctuation i dont know how long i can last at doing this because it is very automatic for me to put in the apostrophe or my beloved ellipses but i shall perservere and all of this is as an example and an urging to all you readers out there to use proper punctuation its kind of funny really because when i type i dont utilize capital letters because well lets face it its mostly because im lazy too lazy to even hold down the shift key while im typing and im sure that someone would argue that its rather hypocritical of me to eschew capital letters but be such a stickler for punctuation but i must say that i think that punctuation is the more important of the two while capitalization gives one a visual reference for how important one thing might be to another and i guess a sort of visual clue for the beginning of a thought i would argue that punctuation is much more important it can also give you the visual cue for the beginning of a new thought simply because it is used to denote the end of the previous thought it is also necessary for the expression of thoughts while not having a capital is unlikely to change the meaning of a sentence generally at least a misplaced comma can make things much different commas are important in writing because they allow you the writer to provide a guide to the reader readers will always take what they want from a piece but as a writer you want to at least nudge them in the direction you were thinking or maybe thats just my wishful thinking i was going to end here with a period but then i rememberd how i wasnt using any of those so ill just stop full stop instead ciao

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