{"id":357,"date":"2011-09-16T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/delynwagenknecht.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2020-09-21T20:58:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T00:58:31","slug":"yahoo-punctuation-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delynwagenknecht.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Punctuation Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Punctuation of the English language is an exquisite, albeit confusing, tool with which to perfect one\u2019s pithy, powerful, and adroit prose.&nbsp;I assert, with some satisfaction, that, when it comes to grammar and mechanics, I am of the \u201cOld School.\u201d Yes, I enjoyed diagramming, or parsing, sentences when I was in elementary school. I adored the&nbsp;picture:&nbsp;a sentence\u2019s blood and guts hung elegantly on the lines and angles representing its alluring skeleton. Alas,&nbsp;the sentence diagram&nbsp;has become a long-lost friend, and no one seems to understand the differences between phrases and clauses, both dependent and independent; between verbs and verbals; between participles, not left dangling, and gerunds. Because of this lack of understanding, \u201cprofessionals\u201d perform their tasks wrong, and no one cares. Like the hideous sentence, \u201c<em>Your<\/em>&nbsp;student&nbsp;did<em>&nbsp;their<\/em>&nbsp;homework;\u201d&nbsp;like the use of&nbsp;<em>nauseous<\/em>&nbsp;to mean&nbsp;<em>nauseated,&nbsp;<\/em>rules once steadfast have changed. What was once wrong is now correct, and I sigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I go to the Yahoo&nbsp;Mail page&nbsp;so that a student can access his email, and my eyes are drawn with horror to the cute little advertisement waiting for me there: confusing lists with misplaced commas and an actual comma splice right there in large&nbsp;letters for everyone to see.&nbsp;&nbsp;With all the millions of dollars&nbsp;in the Yahoo coffers and all&nbsp;talent in the company,&nbsp;can\u2019t they find someone who knows how to use commas? I suppose it matters not at this point. I love email and blogging and Facebook and searching the world at the snap of my fingers. I navigate away from the offending page and try to put it out of my mind. I read my blog and find (gasp) two actual typos. Oh, woe is me; I am part of the problem. Quickly, I edit and hope that no one is ranting about me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punctuation of the English language is an exquisite, albeit confusing, tool with which to perfect one\u2019s pithy, powerful, and adroit prose.&nbsp;I assert, with some satisfaction, that, when it comes to grammar and mechanics, I am of the \u201cOld School.\u201d Yes, I enjoyed diagramming, or parsing, sentences when I was in elementary school. 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