Thread: A question on punctuation

Originally Posted by The Wrong Writer
Yes the string of marks looks weird. Like I said earlier, I usually try to work around and break it up. Not that hard to do most of the time.

*TWW rushes to answer Sparky whilst at the same time studiously avoiding my question about his example*

Originally Posted by The Backward OX

*TWW rushes to answer Sparky whilst at the same time studiously avoiding my question about his example*

...ignoring, might I add, the fact that Sparky asked no question.

Well, it isn't so much that I'm having a hard time changing the sentence...I just don't want to. I'm writing this story...and every day I read the updates to my daughter, who is 10. This line is something spontaneous that came spilling out of her mouth while she did an imitation of the character and to be honest I laughed my ass off. Maybe you had to be there.... My child can take credit for a measily two lines out of some 45,000 words I have written and I don't want to take that away from her.

Having stirred up so much controversy, I don't feel so bad now having asked the question. I'm sure someone...or a few someones here are correct but I hesitate to take sides.

Thank you all again for your input. It has been very interesting.