Some ways you might celebrate include:
- Lament the use of possessive apostrophes in plural words.
- Write sentences that make use of semicolons; they're very useful (though perhaps not quite as useful as parentheses).
- Mock unnecessary quotation marks.
- Investigate the mysterious interrobang.
- Make punctuation-shaped food (PDF) if you're really ambitious.
Personally, I think I'll observe a moment of silence for the Associated Press's omission of the serial comma. Luckily, the Chicago Manual of Style, which we use here at BookPros, requires the serial comma, so the books we publish are unambiguous and easy to read. Thanks, punctuation!
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Can I celebrate by overusing exclamation marks? That's my favorite!!!
I fully intend to go home and make a meatloaf in the shape of a question mark. But shouldn't every day be Punctuation Day?
I'm going to reread my copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves in honor of the holiday. Yay!
I fully intend to go home and make a meatloaf in the shape of a question mark.
Just make sure you have some greens with it. I hear eating too much meat and not enough vegetables can give you colon cancer (ba-doomp-TSCH!).
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