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I had an idea while I was writing late last night; the middle of the night is my most productive creative time; I\u2019m sort of like Batman that way but without going all vigilante; so behold the Oxford semicolon! Cool, it\u2019sn\u2019t?<\/p>\nI had an idea while I was writing late last night; the middle of the night is my most productive creative time; I\u2019m sort of like Batman that way but without going all vigilante; so behold the Oxford semicolon! Cool, it\u2019sn\u2019t?<\/p>\n
Another thing you may have noticed; I was also wondering why the double contraction is not a thing; because it is not. It isn\u2019t. It\u2019s not.
\nWhy not \u201cIt\u2019sn\u2019t?\u201d
\nThat\u2019s fun to say out loud, it\u2019sn\u2019t?
\nWhyn\u2019t try using that? Yes, \u201cwhyn\u2019t\u201d should be a legal contraction as well.<\/p>\n
\u00a1Henceforth, let’sn’t write without correcting these oversights! \u00a1And we should start using those upside-down exclamation marks at the beginning of sentences like they do in Spanish!<\/p>\n
\u00a1See, when Mexico sends us punctuation, they send us the best<\/em> punctuation! \u00bfDon\u2019t you love knowing ahead of time if the words you\u2019re reading are a question, or if you\u2019re supposed to yell them? \u00a1\u00a1\u00a1We should start using those upside down warning pucnts immediately!!!<\/p>\n !That\u2019sn\u2019t an exclamation mark at the beginning of this sentence; it\u2019s an upside-down semicolon; I think you should have the right to know if a semicolon is forthcoming in a compound sentence. !Sadly, there is no \u201cupside-down semicolon\u201d button on the keyboard; someone should work on that posthaste.<\/p>\n \u00a1$%^&\u00a2*\u20ac\u2039\u203a\u2021! Sorry… That was just me \u201csymbol swearing\u201d at you. \u00bfDid you notice I\u00a0had the courtesy to use the Mexipunct at the start of all that profanity? !:Note to reader: I haven\u2019t figured out what to call those upside-down prepuncts yet; \u201cprepunct\u201d seems like a good word; this sentence also featured a completecolon, hence the upside-down completecolon preceding this sentence. In Spanish, they just call this \u201cinverted punctiation.\u201d If you say it like a soccer announcer, and in Spanish, it sounds more exciting.<\/p>\n :Observe: But in English, \u201cinverted punctuation\u201d sounds lame. \u00a1I\u2019lln\u2019t sleep until this is corrected!<\/p>\n \u00a1!: Re: “completecolon”: There should be a word for \u201ccolon\u201d that\u2019sn\u2019t easily confused with that thing in your body up in which they shove a camera to look for lumps when you turn 50; happy birthday to me! \/The whole colon\/semicolon thing suggests that one is superior to the other. \u00bfBTW, did you notice I used an upside-down slash to warn you that a slash was coming? \u00a1You\u2019re welcome!<\/p>\n !There\u2019s a North Dakota and a South Dakota; there\u2019s a North Carolina and a South of the Border; they sound equal. \u00a1!\/But the whole Virginia\/West Virginia dichotomy suggests one came before the other and is more important; sources inform me this may indeed be the case! \/We should fix that for colon\/semicolon. \u00a1Henceforth, I shall call it the completecolon!<\/p>\n :There is an upside-down completecolon at the beginning of this sentence and it means one thing: a completecolon will be used in this sentence.<\/p>\n !There\u2019sn\u2019t a button to make an upside-down completecolon forepunct; if there were, it would just look like a regular completcolon. Let\u2019sn\u2019t waste any more time before getting on that task.<\/p>\n ):\u00a1(Note to self: get on that whole \u201cupside-down completecolon\u201d thing; while you\u2019ren\u2019t sleeping, you should also invent a warnpunct (there’s another possible word for it) for an upside-down parenthesis that doesn\u2019t just look backwards; we\u2019re going to need those too; this sentence used one, and it looked awful in hindsight and foresight.)<\/p>\n \u00a1And we should all start speaking with hashtags!<\/p>\n #weshouldallstartspeakingwithhashtags #letstalkabouthashtagsinanothercolumn I had an idea while I was writing late last night; the middle of the night is my most productive creative time; I\u2019m sort of like Batman that way but without going all vigilante; so behold the Oxford semicolon! Cool, it\u2019sn\u2019t? 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\u00a1!Now I\u2019m yelling at you; with my new punctuation rules everyone should have seen the yelling and the semicolons in this sentence from a mile away! \u00bfSee how well that works?<\/p>\n
\n\u201c\u00a1Estoy utilizando la puntuaci\u00f3n invertida en esta sentencia! \u00a1\u00a1\u00a1\u00a1\u00a1Goooooooooooooooooal!!!!!\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n![\"bartolo](\"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Colon.png\")
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\n#poundsign
\n#octothorpe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"