Can I Quote You On That?

Woohoo!! National Punctuation Day is coming!  

 You know what to do!

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I stand corrected.

Bakers, contrary to popular belief, those curved thingies are not sideways "happy hugs" for your text; they're parentheses. But I'll make this easy for you: YOU WILL NEVER NEED PARENTHESES ON YOUR CAKES. So don't use them. Ever.

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No, not even for a name in all caps.

 

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And not for anniversaries, either.

 

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Gosh. I bet "Mom" is really feeling like part of the family right now.

 

 Which brings me to my next point:

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STOP IT WITH THE QUOTATION MARKS ALREADY.

 

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Why are these numbers in quotes? Are they euphemisms or something? Are these people not really 13 and 59? And why does this keep happening, anyway?

 

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Oh.

 

Thanks to Monica, Debb D., Tamara M.,  Alyssa V., Amy C., Rachel C., and Aurora C. for helping me cover parentheses and quotation marks. Tomorrow: COLONS! (You'll have to check back to see which kind.)

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P.S. And here's the official t-shirt of National Punctuation Day:

Punctuation Saves Lives

Proof that educating can also be entertaining!

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And from my other blog, Epbot: