logical punctuation
Hal and the Cell Phone
Tweet I love my cell phone and would not like to go back to a world without them. But like Hal, the bossy computer in Stanley Kubric’s great film, 2001: a Space Oddysey, these little machines are messing with our heads. I teach first-year university students, and have noticed two new developments this year: 1) […]
Logical punctuation
Tweet I am constantly apologizing to my students for the dumb rule that punctuation goes inside the quotation marks, “Yes, that’s what I apologize for.” This makes no sense, and no wonder everyone ignores it. But help is on the way — a move towards logical punctuation is gaining ground, as more and more people ignore […]