can i just make this clear one more time

Can I just make this clear one more time. 

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ALOT =è http://twitpic.com/2m0qj6

A LOT = VERY MUCH

YOUR = BELONGING TO YOU; OF YOU

YOU’RE = YOU ARE

THEIR = BELONGING TO THEM

THEY’RE = THEY ARE

THERE = THAT PLACE; A LOCATION OTHER THAN HERE

TOO = IN EXCESS, ALSO

TWO = THE NUMBER THAT FOLLOWS ONE AND PRECEDES THREE

TO = MOTION OR DIRECTION TOWARD A POINT

If you don’t know what TWO is, you need to be shot.

WHERE = a question of geographical location. — WHERE are your keys?

WERE = past tense. you found your keys? — where WERE they?

WE’RE = we are. — now that you found your keys, we’re going to go for a drive.

THEN = indicates a specific point in time. — I walked the dog, and THEN I gave him a bath.

THAN = indicates a degree of separation. — Johnny is fast, but Jack can run faster THAN Johnny.

BEAR = the large, omnivorous mammal, OR, “the pain is more than I can BEAR.”

BARE = being naked, or empty. — It is a wish of mine to see Megan Fox on my bed, bare.

Oh, and when you’re leaving a comment saying that someone left you speechless, it’s two “e’s, not “speachless.” There are no peaches in your mouth while you’re talking.. hopefully.

BREATH = one breath. as in “I took a breath before diving in the pool.”

BREATHE = what taking a breath is. — “I had to come up to the surface in order to breathe”

ALSO…  When your leg or arm itches, you are SCRATCHING it, not ITCHING it.  F--k, is it really that hard?

LEFT is this way..  <   RIGHT is this way..  >

September 6, 2010 [20100906 can i just make this clear one more time]

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Celebrate National Punctuation Day September 24

A message from Jeff Rubin:

September 5, 2010

Hello punctuation fans,

The fall 2010 issue of my e-zine, The Exclamation Point! - the newsletter of National Punctuation Day and Punctuation Playtime - is attached. Previous issues are available here: http://www.punctuationplaytime.com/exclamationpoint/index.html.

The Exclamation Point! features information about the September 24 celebration of National Punctuation Day (we're having a Punctuation Haiku Contest), the latest literacy news from around the world, and our Punctuation Playtime assemblies for students in grades K-6.

There's more information about National Punctuation Day and our Punctuation Haiku Contest here: http://www.NationalPunctuationDay.com.

Yours in proper punctuation,

JEFF RUBIN

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September 24

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The misunderstood comma

“The misunderstood comma” November 22, 2009 Kevin Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/ycmfuhb

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Commas are probably the most misunderstood of all punctuation. They frequently dress in black, listen to sad music, and cut themselves.

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WP ombud: Growing numbers of readers are complaining about typos and small errors

WP ombud: Growing numbers of readers are complaining about typos and small errors

Washington Post Why that's happening: Between early 2005 and mid-2008, the number of full-time WP copy editors dropped from about 75 to 43 through buyouts or voluntary departures, reports Andrew Alexander.

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=166262

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20080218 New York Times: Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location

Celebrating the semicolon

February 18, 2008

Since the semicolon is by far, my favorite punctuation mark; I thoroughly enjoyed: “Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location ,” which appears in the New York Times today. I bet you’ll enjoy the article also.

Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location

By SAM ROBERTS February 18, 2008

It was nearly hidden on a New York City Transit public service placard exhorting subway riders not to leave their newspaper behind when they get off the train.

“Please put it in a trash can,” riders are reminded. After which Neil Neches, an erudite writer in the transit agency’s marketing and service information department, inserted a semicolon. The rest of the sentence reads, “that’s good news for everyone.”

Semicolon sightings in the city are unusual, period, much less in exhortations drafted by committees of civil servants. In literature and journalism, not to mention in advertising, the semicolon has been largely jettisoned as a pretentious anachronism.

[…]

“When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life,” Kurt Vonnegut once said. “Old age is more like a semicolon.”

In terms of punctuation, semicolons signal something New Yorkers rarely do. Frank McCourt, the writer and former English teacher at Stuyvesant High School, describes the semicolon as the yellow traffic light of a “New York sentence.” In response, most New Yorkers accelerate; they don’t pause to contemplate.

[…]

Louis Menand, an English professor at Harvard and a staff writer at The New Yorker, pronounced the subway poster’s use of the semicolon to be “impeccable.”

Lynne Truss, author of “Eats Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation,” called it a “lovely example” of proper punctuation.

Geoffrey Nunberg, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, praised the “burgeoning of punctuational literacy in unlikely places.”

Allan M. Siegal, a longtime arbiter of New York Times style before retiring, opined, “The semicolon is correct, though I’d have used a colon, which I think would be a bit more sophisticated in that sentence.”

[…]

New York City Transit’s unintended agenda notwithstanding, e-mail messages and text-messaging may jeopardize the last vestiges of semicolons. They still live on, though, in emoticons, those graphic emblems of our grins, grimaces and other facial expressions.

The semicolon, befittingly, symbolizes a wink.

Read the entire article; what fun: Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location

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20080218 New York Times: Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location

Learn the Difference Between AFFECT and EFFECT

Learn the Difference Between AFFECT and EFFECT

by Tina Blue August 11, 2000

Confusion between the words affect and effect is so common that I almost never see either of the words used correctly. Since I read anything that doesn't move fast enough to get away from me, and since I read hundreds of essays by college students each semester, I have reason to believe that this error is not just a misspelling, but an actual misapprehension of the two words and how they are used.

Generally speaking, affect is a verb and effect is a noun. When you affect something, you produce an effect on it. Even in the passive voice, something would be affected, not effected.

[…]

Read Ms. Blue’s entire article and see what effect it has on you: Learn the Difference Between AFFECT and EFFECT

20000811 Learn the Difference Between AFFECT and EFFECT
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