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    Metapunctuation: When a Comma Isn't Enough
    Metapunctuation: When a Comma Isn't Enough
    Metapunctuation: When a Comma Isn't Enough
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    Metapunctuation: When a Comma Isn't Enough

    By Lewis Burke Frumkes

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    DON'T STOP WITH THE PERIOD

    The richness of English comes from its enormous vocabularyupward of a million words. But how many punctuation marks are available to help communicate all the subtlety and nuances of the language? A piddling handful of tired, overworked dots, dashes, and devices that fall short when it comes to delivering the written word as the writer intended it. Metapunctuation, the product of the brilliant if somewhat askew mind of Lewis Burke Frumkes, adds the absent flair and precision, ends ambiguity, and makes manifest all of English's unspoken jabs, frowns, inflections, passions, and innuendos with marks such as: phobic brackets to enclose fear gone wildly out of control infatuation marks to indicate a frivolous kind of love ring of indignation to really let 'em have it pasion waves for prose ranging from purple to blue contempto-drips for utter disdain

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMay 12, 2000
    ISBN9781462099511
    Metapunctuation: When a Comma Isn't Enough
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    Lewis Burke Frumkes

    Lewis Burkes Frumkes is a writer/humorist/teacher/broadcaster. In addition to the many books he's written his writing has appeared in many venues, including Harper's, Punch and the New York Times. He has taught Humanities at Marymount Manhattan College and Harvard University. He lives in New York City.

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