Comments on: Dear Newsblogs: Learn To Punctuate

By: MG Siegler Destroys the English Language – Episode 2 « Plankhead

MG Siegler Destroys the English Language – Episode 2 « Plankhead — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:07:41 +0000

[...] writer MG Siegler is certainly no stranger to “innovative” grammar. While experimentation in writing style and the bending conventional rules is often a wonderful [...]

By: Holy Crap, MG Siegler Just Used Both An Em Dash AND A Semicolon Correctly! « Plankhead

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:06:21 +0000

[...] wrote that. He wrote that. Em dashes and semicolons were the very first things I ever passive-aggressively taught him. And now he just used them the way they’re supposed to [...]

By: MG Siegler Destroys the English Language — Episode 4 « Plankhead

MG Siegler Destroys the English Language — Episode 4 « Plankhead — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:07:55 +0000

[...] have I frightened you into using commas instead of semicolons or em dashes? It’s not that you should always use a comma instead of a more “sophisticated” [...]

By: tcdavis

tcdavis — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:08:17 +0000

Those sentences may have ruined my entire morning. Maybe it stems from growing up with a skill and interest in writing which lead to me learning proper grammar early, but I find it abhorrent that average, English-speaking people cannot grasp how something as basic as a semicolon should be used. Blogs in general are written so poorly that when I don't find a single grammatical error in the first paragraph I want to give the writer an award.