Punctuation
11 creative works found
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Love love love :-) More at http://www.vladstudio.com
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Mistress Poet
by Brett Fosterand with an explosive rhapsody of ink she drafts another sated admirer into her volumes…
Rising to the challenge set down by the inimitable Kristy Lee with her piece Master Poet
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Punctuation is Powerful ! :O)
by adgrayThis one made me smile :O) An English professor wrote the words: “A woman without her man is nothing” / on the chalkboard and a…
This one made me smile :O) An English professor wrote the words: “A woman without her man is nothing” / on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly. All of the males in the class wrote: “A woman, without her man, is nothing.” All the females in the class wrote: “A woman: without her, man is nothing.” :O)
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A Special Week
by Patricia L. BallardMy daugthter is visiting this week. It’s her first visit since we moved to North Carolina in January. I had her read my journal entries a…
My daugthter is visiting this week. It’s her first visit since we moved to North Carolina in January. I had her read my journal entries and critique my writing. As she’s an English major, her input was welcome. She said that my writing lacked focus and that I should concentrate on one idea per entry, and that my punction was bad. Since I was in first grade, I’ve had trouble with spelling and punctuation. I also know that my journal entries lack focus. Do appreciate her comments? Yes! They were given in a helpful spirit. Will I change my style of writing, if you could call it that, to a more gramatically correct style? I will try, but every time I start writing in my Redbubble journal ideas and memories come flooding back to me. I have a terrible time focusing on just one idea. I’ve been using the journal to put almost forgotten parts of my life “out there.” It will probably continue to be a “combination plate” of ideas and memories. I’m more visual than verbal and will continue trying to share my experiences in my inexpert way, but I thank her for her help. It’s a treat to have her around to help me with one of my weak areas.
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Love love love :-) More at http://www.vladstudio.com
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Punctuated equilibrium
by David TaylorI’m continually astonished at how small things can have a big impact. Take the humble comma for instance+. The placement of this relative…
I’m continually astonished at how small things can have a big impact. Take the humble comma for instance+. The placement of this relatively insignificant little mark can make all the difference to how legible a sentence is. Not adding a comma into the relevant place in a sentence will produce a stream of words that never seem to stop and can cause much anxiety in the reader of said sentence as they wonder how long they have to keep reading before they can draw breath and actually take in just what the sentence is actually trying to say. Too many commas, and, the, sentence, becomes, choppy, and, too, staccato, by half. Photographic composition is a lot like writing, in that small things like commas can make a big difference to how successful, or not, a piece of work is. A classic example of a small thing in the wrong place, is placing Aunt Matilda in a photo so that it looks as though a tree is growing out of her head. This sort of thing is so easily done; in the same way that it’s easy to forget to apply correct punctuation to a sentence. So what to do? In the case of a sentence, once it has been committed to screen or paper, the first thing to do is to read it through. Does it make sense? Is a comma needed to make the words flow naturally? What would the sentence sound like if read aloud? With a photograph it is useful to have a similar mental checklist before pressing the shutter button. Have I looked all around the viewfinder and not just at the subject of the photograph? Are there elements in the picture that shouldn’t be there, and if so will they disappear or be less distracting if I move position slightly? Does Aunt Matilda really have a tree growing out of her head? What can done about it if she does? This obviously all takes time and a certain amount of discipline, but after a while the process becomes second nature. And you will be astonished just how much difference it will make to the final image. Much in the same way that another punctuation mark, the full stop or period, makes a satisfying conclusion to a well crafted. sentence +The punctuation mark, that is, not the butterfly; though if the butterfly effect theory is correct, perhaps the comma is the pesky insect that’s been causing all these storms across the world recently.
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poem for a dyslexic - to be read aloud
by neliyetiLost for words Patrick / Might not have a dictionary tucked at the end of his long sleeves in winter / But he always has a number to lend / ...
Lost for words Patrick / Might not have a dictionary tucked at the end of his long sleeves in winter / But he always has a number to lend / My favourite being 3458790012 / Which I couldn’t possibly pronounce or tell you / But Patrick could and he would hand it to you as if it were / The best piece of pie he had made in the oven / Apple with lashings of cinnamon / His own style of pastry acting as the casing Lost for words Patrick / Might not be able to write you a sonnet / But he can build a roof over your head / With fancy corners and twisted ideas of style and architecture / Sometimes out of place in the remote space of Australia / And if you look at him / You might not be mistaken in thinking that he could be / From another country / Or time just visiting this world with a sense of amusement / Far older than his shoulders provide. Lost for words Patrick / Isn’t really lost at all. / He has a tiny compass and computer locked away inside, / it’s just a game he plays with the universe / and the universe, him; and somehow / school and reports get in the way of the adventure of discovering / and beyond the numbers, pies and creations that peel away at least one layer / if you listen very carefully, even lift the pastry crust, / peep round the corner or lift up a number four / Lost for words Patrick can be seen saving letters / and punctuation, and he’s looking for more …
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The question of death lies still in setting sun.
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Laser-cut foamcore letters arrange at State LIbrary for CALD exhibition. I was reading a review about the invention of spaces between words and began thinking about how ambiguous some words would be seeing how some words contain 2 or more other words. I chose 4 benign words and it doesn’t become clear that it can contain a more grammatically correct sentence one the reader interacts with it and inserts their own spaces.
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I feel like this most of the time…
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