The most common punctuation errors

Posted by | September 24, 2016 14:50 | Filed under: Top Stories


Sep. 24 is National Punctuation Day. Period. Jeff Rubin birthed National Punctuation Day — the occasion is not an officially recognized holiday — in 2004 to celebrate the underappreciated art of correct grammar. Rubin’s official website for the day describes the day as “a celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper…

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Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.

8 responses to The most common punctuation errors

  1. Larry Schmitt September 24th, 2016 at 16:18

    There was a book a few years ago titled “Eats, Shoots & Leaves.” The title is explained in the book this way:
    A panda walks into a bar. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
    “Why? Why are you behaving in this strange, un-panda-like fashion?” asks the confused waiter, as the panda walks towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
    “I’m a panda,” he says, at the door. “Look it up.”
    The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
    “Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.”

    • Kick Frenzy September 24th, 2016 at 23:10

      I love that book.
      I own it (though I’m not sure if I lent it out to someone) and read it a couple years ago.

      Or maybe someone had lent it to me.
      hmm

  2. Mensa Member September 24th, 2016 at 19:28

    I hate article’s, like this.

    • Mike N. September 25th, 2016 at 12:23

      Yeah: their really annoying to

  3. CHOCOL8MILK September 24th, 2016 at 22:21

    Interesting article I think it was some good points but-I believe that when your reading it you might find it “silly”.

    • fahvel September 26th, 2016 at 03:30

      hey, your aint right and I aint american.

  4. DogsRgoodpeople September 24th, 2016 at 23:51

    so give me a freakin’ ticket

  5. leDaver September 25th, 2016 at 23:39

    This is an incorrect sentence: You’re denotes possession, as in “that is your book”. Perhaps it is just a typo, but the correct sentence should read “Your” denotes possession, as in “that is your book”. Perhaps the proofreader missed it before this article was published.

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