In the back of the bookstore prior to his interview, Mr. Lutz discussed some recent and disappointing trends in punctuation and grammar, a subject about which he is writing a book.
Conventions in punctuation and word placement were all bent in this quest for pictorial mood, and this is what makes the arrival of both writers so startling in the history of prose.
But when I meet teachers who can't spell, who are incapable of drafting a simple letter to parents without making basic mistakes in grammar and punctuation, I have to wonder exactly what my children are being taught.
In the game, players take on a series of increasingly tough enemies in an arena drawn using only the basic characters and punctuation marks available in Excel.
Throw in special characters (punctuation marks) and you add yet another dimension.
Paul Gerhardt, project director of the Creative Archive Licence Group, added the big news stories of the last three decades were "the punctuation marks in the stories of our lives".
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Across the fields and beyond a humming slash of motorway, the enormous bamboo stalk of Taipei 101, the second-tallest building in the world, stood like a punctuation mark.
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise, " he said in 1986.
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As a punctuation-neutral substitute, it has in mind a name nobody here seems to recognize: Willard Mountain.
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The whole panoply of punctuation doodles that decorated e-mail in its early days, from :-) to :-( is also being revived on keypads.
Grammar, punctuation, spelling and comprehension are covered in the literacy tests.
Specific marks are being allocated for good spelling, punctuation and grammar - a change that affects exams in English literature, geography, history and religious studies taken since January this year.
In one particular extract, it says the paper omitted a punctuation mark, so that it appeared that the Koran was described with an obscene word, when this was not, in fact, the case.
If poets were punctuation, Zevon was a great, big, bold, in-your-face exclamation point in a world with too many pedestrian periods.
Mr Simon (whose unusual punctuation is a barrier to the uninitiated) became briefly famous in 1985 when, like Beckett, he won the Nobel.
Unusual sentences with complex clauses and odd punctuation tend to require more conscious effort, which leads to more activation in the dorsal pathway.
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