Wait, Ben hates interrobangs‽ But they're great! They're a question mark AND an exclamation point. Do you use them? New episode on punctuation with Florence Hazrat here, or in all the podcast places: becauselanguage.com/148-on-the-m...

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New episode! It's okay to play with punctuation. Florence Hazrat tells us about the history of the marks we use, and who the heavy hitters were. @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social Book here: books.apple.com/us/book/on-t... Episode here: becauselanguage.com/148-on-the-m...

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If you could have AO3-style tag wrangling in any non-fanfic, non-AO3 spaces, what space would you add it to? I know @gretchenmcculloch.com wrote a Wired article about 7 years ago(!) that listed some examples of this, but I'm curious what thoughts folks are having about this now.

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Where did punctuation come from? Today on @BBCRadio4 'Word of Mouth'. Scholar Florence Hazrat grapples with commas, semi-colons and the rest: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Everybody — we're having a party for Mignon because @grammargirl.bsky.social is turning 20. But it's a surprise party, so don't show her this link! Otherwise she'll know what we're up to. But all patrons are welcome, free or paid. Not a patron? Sign up, even free. www.patreon.com/becauselangp...

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