Overuse of dashes make it-Harder to understand what I am saying?The rules of punctuation are simply "tightening the leash" of an already tight leash. As. Time. Goes. On. punctuationchangeswiththepeople!Thecycleisneverending.
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Puncuation. A constantly changing cycle.
As. Time. Goes. On. punctuationchangeswiththepeople!Ever since the creation of social media the way people write their sentences differently. Many have excluded the use of periods, apostrophes and the Oxford comma. It is believed that social media is creating a decline of literacy when in fact it is helping to improve people's writing styles (Source F.) This is because some social media sites, such as Twitter place character limits (140 characters- on posts so that the author of the post has to be more precise and clear in what they're trying to say but the also have the opportunity to express themselves in a creative way. This “digital communication and social media have produced new opportunities” (Source A) that allow people to not feel oppressed by the rules pf punctuation There shall be no more "dogma of the period" (Source B) Emily Dickinson did just fine without using periods in her poems to or commas to separate her ideas - she used dashes instead- Does this the-
Overuse of dashes make it-Harder to understand what I am saying?The rules of punctuation are simply "tightening the leash" of an already tight leash. As. Time. Goes. On. punctuationchangeswiththepeople!Thecycleisneverending.
Overuse of dashes make it-Harder to understand what I am saying?The rules of punctuation are simply "tightening the leash" of an already tight leash. As. Time. Goes. On. punctuationchangeswiththepeople!Thecycleisneverending.
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I like how you choose to creatively use punctuation to make your point. I must admit, however, it did make it slightly more difficult to understand at times - I had to slow down and reread portions to fully comprehend them. That may be a bonus, though; research has shown that information that is difficult to read is actually retained more extensively, probably due to the whole s,l.o-w-d.o,w,n,-a/n;d'-r]e;r,e,a.d thing.
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting that you mentioned the research, that's the main reason I put the dashes in the question. I wanted people to slow down and actually read and comprehend the question.
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