In Defense of the ?
Your comments, thoughts, suggestions, issues, and insight are always welcome. Please feel free to reply to any of my posts. Another sad trend in grammar/punctuation/spelling that has inundated social media sites is the abuse, misuse, and absence entirely of our cute ? In the image above, we know that both sentences need a ? after them. Just because you ask in a loud voice doesn't make it an exclamation. We used to do the ?! until somebody said enough is enough and that helpful bit of clarity went bye-bye. And, no, I don't care one fig what APS has to say about it, either. It is just too much effort to select both the SHIFT and ? keys. The bottom line is this: lazy. Lazy people do lazy things, and it usually shows up in their writing as well as their bedroom, or their house in general. To my way of thinking (and seeing), this is the equivalent of walking into someone's home and seeing dirty dishes piled high in the sink, dust bunnies tumbling along the...