For Bob with apologies to Mark.
I'm thinking of starting a punctuation self-help group for the Argus bloggers and I was going to call it punctuation insertion support and self-help with possibly a mention of how it would be open only four Fridays but I thought the old goat of Caldicot might think I was trying to slipping something in unnoticed so: Punctuation retrieval and technical support it is then.
I thought we could come together, share our problems, swap unwanted punctuation, you know the sort of thing: Bob to Mark - I need a forward slash, you'll need an exclamation mark.
Mike to Anyone - I can't find my colon, anyone got a spare?
S-A to Mark - I've got another question Mark?
Danielle - If I write "I am on a diet; for half the week I eat nothing" do I need a semi-colon?
Kevin - I don't, like punctuation. It always; "Seems to be in the wrong" place!
And general problems like: ,My inverted commas have inverted, !**@*?!* I'm buried knee-deep in ampersands.
I ave an acute accent, can anyone elp?
Comma- have a go if you think your hard enough.
How many asterisks are there after W4?
I can only come to a full stop if someone slaps the dash..
I've lost a Speech Mark, have you seen it?
We will, of course, help out with other problems such as wordsrunningtogether, paragraphs appearing from nowhere and people slipping things in unnoticed.
Gill- I seem to have come to a Full Stop.
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