Punctuation

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  1. Joe Riley

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    Hi to you Bill Boggs! Glad to see your post, and know you are OK! some folks have missed you, and have been asking! Cheers!;)
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    Thanks, Joe. I took some time off to bang my head against a wall. Although hard-headed I did manage to raise some bumps. Glad you're still kicking all right.
     
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    It's better to be OK, than to be KO'd!;)
     
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    <<I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am>>. Gustave Eiffel

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    I'm a big fan of the Oxford comma. For example:
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    Me, too. I watched a bunch of them. Good stuff.
     
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    Who'd have imagined that a book about English grammar would be a massive seller? Nor me, but it was...

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  11. Remembering one of my school friends who thought anything that ended with the letter s required an apostrophe...
    She was filling out a form, and wrote her father's name: Charle's.
     
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    Lol, that's funny! Sometimes autocorrect will put an apostrophe in wether it needs it or not. Sometimes I catch my typos and correct them, sometimes I don't. Life is too short too worry about that for me. I'm on my ipad a lot and by the end of the day, my finger is really killing me with the touch screen and I could care less if there is a mistake.

    If you can read it, that's good enough for me. I'm not in writing class or sending in a resume so I think we should be more tolerant of mistakes. Many reasons for them besides not knowing proper grammar or spelling.

    My rant for the day. :)
     
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