I say, Wilfred, I do believe that it would be rather marvelous were I to have a telegraph machine that could fit in my pocket.
Why, if such a remarkable thing were to exist, I could send Aunt Agnes a telegram from anywhere in the world simply by retrieving the machine from my jacket, keying in the message, and sending it on its way via radio broadcast. Perhaps she might even carry a similar machine of her own with which to receive my telegrams wherever she might be, whether seated in her parlor, or out in the country on a velocipede.
In fact, while we’re imagining such splendid ideas, perhaps this telegraph machine could be constructed in the shape of miniature typewriter, which I could operate with my thumbs. Continue reading ‘Droll Musings From an Early 20th Century British Gentleman on Txting Ur Peepz’
Holy Crap, MG Siegler Just Used Both An Em Dash AND A Semicolon Correctly!
Oh. My. God.
You guys.
Look at this. Look at this article by MG Siegler.
Are you seeing this? Last two sentences of the first paragraph:
MG 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 be.
UPDATE: Well, technically, “and” doesn’t go after a semicolon, but I’ve already given MG a pass on beginning sentences with “and” as a stylistic quirk, so he can do it with semicolons too.
Also parentheticals. All three, in the same paragraph. Wow.
And look at this, right at the start of the next paragraph:
Omigod he just did the same thing with a colon too eeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
MG, you have no idea how proud I am of you; I never thought this day would come so fast. Just think, someday maybe you’ll even spot a place where my own punctuation compromises readability.
Now, all I have to make fun of about you is your Apple fanboyism and obsession with Twitter, making me just like everyone else in the world. Unless, of course, you so much as misplace the acute mark in the word “cliché” (which you have no excuse for because on your Mac it’s as simple as hitting option-E before typing the E). If you do that, I will not hesitate to waste four hours of my life ranting about it in order to get maybe two or three extra pageviews.