February 4, 2015
‘This.’ is new social network. It’s simple: you can only share one link per day. WHAT?! But but but but what if I ask nicely? What if I have two or twelve links that I— —No! No more mollycoddling and second chances by social networks that just let you throw [an anagram of This.] against […]
February 9, 2011
Over at Catchword offices this morning we are wading through various hash tags while Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Me and Jane Doe swirls around our brain. And then we get jarred into wondering, just how did punctuation come to be used? Because after all, at first there was no punctuation. Of course, at that time there was […]
August 26, 2009
The other day a client asked me about the use of punctuation in company and product names. Until she asked, I hadn’t thought about it all that much, although I’d certainly noticed it when it was staring me in the face. Take Walmart, for example – and could there be a better example staring you […]
June 13, 2004
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation By Lynne Truss Published by Gotham Books 240 pages; $17.50 ISBN: 1592400876 I’ve been wanting a copy of this book ever since I read about it in a British newspaper, oh, around Christmas. Thought about spending the $25 or so that it would cost me […]