The 9 Best Netiquette Famous Quotations on Puctuation - From Netiquette IQ

The following is a group of famous quotations about punctuation. Punctuation is a very significant part of Netiquette and can make a huge difference on how we communicate, the tone of our email and the readability of our messages. It is both subtle and powerful! The list will actually assist you in both a subtle and a powerful way to think about and utilize punctuation to your benefit.

April 23, 2010 by thewritecorner

*  Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.  ~  F. Scott Fitzgerald
*  No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.  ~ Isaac Babel
*  You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.  ~  George Bernard Shaw
*  Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.  ~  Lewis Thomas
*  In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy and the semicolon quietly practices the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets over-excited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.  ~  Lynne Truss

*  A period is a stop sign. A semicolon is a rolling stop sign; a comma is merely an amber light.  ~  Andrew Offutt
*  Used sparingly, the semicolon emphasizes your crucial contrasts; used recklessly, it merely clutters your page.  ~  Sheridan Baker
*  If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and entertain itself, because mummy and daddy are busy, the apostrophe is the abused victim.  ~  John Humphrys
*  From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.  ~  Winston Churchill

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