CSS Wizardry » Punctuation http://csswizardry.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:05:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 The importance of proper punctuation http://csswizardry.com/2010/01/the-importance-of-proper-punctuation/ http://csswizardry.com/2010/01/the-importance-of-proper-punctuation/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:44:38 +0000 Harry Roberts http://csswizardry.com/?p=462 This is a short (and cheeky) post on the necessity of using proper punctuation—particularly the hyphen—and how it can completely alter the meaning of your sentence, often with ill effect. This morning, for one reason or another, I was reminded of a conversation I had with @nofunnyname last week on the subject of him buying a car. He said:

“I need to get an old ass banger.”

So, is that ‘old-ass banger’, or ‘old ass-banger’? You decide ;)

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