Wordless Wednesday
A dreary rainy morning
Back to school
Alphanumeric Blog Hop
I thought I was too late to sign up for it because I was a couple days behind on reading Mel’s blog, but then she contacted me and asked if I could do a post about punctuation. Punctuation? Yes. Punctuation. or perhaps I mean: Yes…punctuation. The first response is clear cut. Yes. It is about punctuation. The second is slightly less certain. Yeeessss. I suppose it is about punctuation, of all things. It’s kinda rambly & disjointed but still, you must admit punctuation is the focus. Punctuation is very important when communicating on line – we have no sarcasm font or snarky response font – so punctuation helps fill in the gap. At least for me. I use ellipses … all the time. Sometimes they mean “and yes, here is the punch line” or “here is the sarcastic bit”. Usually they just express a general dubiousness about the whole thing, such as in my example, which is in line with their accepted use to suggest faltering or fragmented speech accompanied by confusion, ...
I love this shot ... and the school bus! How early does school start, as it seems mighty early to be sending them off for the day? When DS begins Nursery School in October (mornings only), his start time will be 8.45am.
ReplyDeleteWow- those backpacks are as big as the kids!
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Great Back To School shot! Hope they and you had a good day! :)
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