Words on Wednesday
From the bin of long forgotten projects.
Project started April 3, 2002
Photo taken April 30, 2006.
Progress made in nearly 5 years since then?
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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, ...
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ReplyDeleteCreepy misshapen checkers board?
Yeah ... that happens at my house too! That's why I leave the lids on those bins! Less guilt that way!
ReplyDeleteI have a millennium sampler that I started before I got married (so pre-1997 then). I have hopes that maybe my descendants will finish it in time for the next millennium....
ReplyDeleteI've got one of those. Mine's a hedgehog and was started in 1998 and sort of faded away around 2001. It was the vile fractional stitches and the blended threads that did it. Pah!
ReplyDeleteYours is pretty. Maybe it'll call to you one day.