This week my sweet husband left me a note before he went on his last trip. It was appropriately sweet and funny.
When I commented to him about how something he wrote made me laugh, he said, "I'm glad you liked the note. I really tried to avoid using too many parentheses."
To which I replied, "Why were you trying to avoid parentheses?"
"Well," he said, "You once told me that you weren't a big fan of parentheses. That you would much prefer it if people used hyphens more often."
And before I could even express my surprise and wonder that I ever said that to him, I realized that this is exactly the sort of weird, English teacher thing I would say. I am blessed to have a husband who can appreciate and respect my grammatical idiosyncrasies.
9 comments:
I really like quotes, exclamation points, and.........dramatic.........long lines.........of periods! Unfortunately, I have never really understood hyphens.
I'm sure we can both agree that one thing which is always overused is the exclamation point! Rats (I did it again - oh no! parenthesis! GAH!!!)!
Sean
This is totally funny. And you have a nice husband. :)
I prefer semicolons; however, I think that between semicolons and dashes, people prefer dashes.
I have thought often of our conversation about this as I have been writing emails--wasn't it just the other night?
Oops... there I did it without even meaning too (I prefer the dash too, but then I realized that in writing this, I was going to use a parentheses!) I guess I pick the dash first but to provide variety, I use both. Isn't it nice that we have so many options?!
too funny. i tend to use all lowercase and over use the ... whatever that is. I'll make a mental note on the parentheses thing.
I'm not really fond of colons or semi-colons. I feel I never had adequate instruction on how to use them pre-high school. Therefore their use in the universe is insignificant.
-Anu (your favorite former student ever)
I can totally hear you guys having that conversation. I hear your voice. AND I saw your mother again...in the ENT office...I think she's stalking me! Just kidding!!! :)
came across a book a couple of days ago about punctuation and the derivative etc...thought of you. plan to read it and will let you know if it is any good--(give me some time though :) )
How funny, b/c in case you didn't notice I do use () and ... quite a bit in my blog. I was just thinking earlier today, though, that if I ever wrote a book, I would LOVE for you to be the editor!
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