Punctuation Community

Key moments

Do you ever touch things To make sure you're here? Maybe jewelry that's not yours. Crystals, paint, your violin? Maybe blades or maybe drugs, Maybe someone else's skin. What brings you back? What helps you stay? What kind of track Guides you away? And those moments when you forget That sometimes… read more

Favorite punctuation

And the fact that I still use capital letters and punctuation marks all the time... 😅

One particular thing that AI ruined for me

When I text people I try my best to not make grammar mistakes, write what I feel and what I think in details and use punctuation. This allows me to express myself in different ways and I love write long texts. Now, every time I do that, people assume that I use AI to communicate and therefore… (edited) read more

What happened to etiquette and being civilized

I don't claim to be the most cultured individual in history but I've been online a couple years and the parents of the so called informed or internet generations I am including myself in this as a father of 2 young adult and one teenage daughter should be ashamed I am constantly contacted by people… (edited) read more

Stickler

What Are You A Stickler For? I Wouldn’t Say These Are Pet Peeves Cause I Think A Lot Things Bother Us. But What Is One Thing That You Just Can NoT Accept.

The power of punctuation

Rich vocabulary: it must be ChatGPT

Funny how rich vocabulary and proper grammar now get dismissed as AI slop. Robots went from writing boring basics to speeches, novels, and deep conversations. Now, in order to differentiate, humans must incorporate authenticity markers: weird punctuation, emojis, slang, typos. We’re lowering the… read more

WORD OF THE DAY

Prig (noun): A person who behaves in a self-righteous, arrogant, or irritatingly precise manner regarding propriety, morality, or social conventions. They are often viewed as fussy, uptight, and pedantic, frequently lecturing others on proper behavior. Pronunciation: [prig] Etymology: The term… read more

Love is complicated, so I brought punctuation 😜

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Im writing a book right now not like this I have an 8th grade education so I use an AI assistant app to help with the facts and the punctuation but the core of my system is a 3 teacher team paid what they are worth that dont teach certain grades they get assigned a class of 5 and 6 year okds and… read more

No is a sentence; goodbye is the punctuation.

Well Written Story

What is everyone’s go to when looking to read a good story?

Punctuation matters

What are some red flags you notice whenever someone messages you and you check their profile?

I feel like this could be useful for some to better write their profiles. I've read some seriously long walls of text with hardly any punctuation, or some self-deprecating ones that make me wanna hug the person and kick their phone away so they can go do something more productive. Haha

I’m giving up..

I'm giving up eating chocolate for a month. Sorry, bad punctuation. I'm giving up... Eating chocolate for a month.

Punctuation is important, as is common sense. 🙃

But sometimes, without proper punctuation, I have to read it twice to understand what someone meant. 😅

kaomoji [ kou-moh-jee ] - a Japanese-style emoticon that uses Japanese characters, Latin letters, and punctuation marks in combination to represent a facial expression that conveys an emotion

You may have seen these before. Here are some of my favorites: ╰(▔∀▔)╯ (◕‿◕) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This one is for my dear Americans ❤️

What is it with some Americans being so against any sort of punctuation? Every time I click on a profile of a person who writes a wall of text without a single punctuation mark, the location is somewhere in the USA. I am genuinely confused and surprised. I, of course, use commas a bit randomly,… read more

importance of punctuation 😂

This is why punctuation is important! 😜

No, Tattoos.

Punctuation is everything. 🤣 Time to book some more appointments.

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Power of punctuation 💁🏻‍♀️ (edited)

Anyone else notice that the most posts with missing punctuation, overall bad grammar, and sometimes terrible spellings are the ones about depression?

Is there some type of real connection between depression and terrible writing? Or is this one of those "correlation does not equal causation" things? I'm not here to make fun of the depressed, their problems, or their attempts to connect thru posts about their sad state of existence. I'm curious… read more

What’s a book you couldn’t finish and why?

I’ll go first. I just couldn’t finish The Dying Swan by Lindsey Marie Docherty. It was painfully unedited, mistakes on every page. Spelling, grammar, punctuation, you name it. What about you?

Getting old

Ok im officially old.... ive been skimming topics here on Boo and in reddit and I have found a pet peeve of mine... its very "hippo critical" (example) of me to critique others spelling, punctuation (or lack there of), and broken English, because I'm horrible at it... however I keep seeing stuff… (edited) read more

Strange Question bc... I'm a dork

Are there any of y'all who use complete words and correct grammar, but then you have one or two exceptions? I almost always write in complete sentences, including punctuation. I use very little text slang. However, I will use 'bc' for because. I think it's a holdout from actually writing that in… read more

"Do you want to build a family with a young man?"

Asked a young man 15 years younger than I am on her love request. He wrote in Spanish, even though in my profile I do not specify Spanish as a language I speak. He did not use punctuation, I did put the question mark in the title so that it's clear. He did not have a job, and he lived in a Latin… read more

Does anyone else feel that when others put space between their words and the punctuation, its a form of passive aggression? Or is that just my autism recognizing patterns? 😂

Text "Tone'

Why is it so many ppl claim they can hear someone's tone through a text, even though they didn't use any punctuation to imply a tone? Then to make matters worse when you let them know they misinterpreted the "tone " they either find a way to tell you it's your fault they don't believe you.

Punctuation is important 😅