Annabelle Blogs Punctuation

Exhibit A – the title of my blog.





Is blogs a verb? I
suppose it has to be here, right? A sentence must contain at least one noun – pronoun in this case, (Ha!) and a verb.
Is that right?





Could blogs it be
a noun? Blogs – like newspapers, magazines – those are nouns.





How am I going to get past this so I can write the actual
blog? I feel stuck.





And when that happens, I typically lose all pretense of
caring and file it under the handy, ‘who cares’. I mentally flash to a gun rack
behind me on a truck I don’t own and think of myself as smoking and drinking a
beer, careening down the highway with the tunes cranking.





But then I land. Books have been written about this grammar shit.
Think about the incredible Eats, Shoots
& Leaves, The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
book by Lynne
Truss. I’ll bet she’d care. Yes, I read the book, loved it actually, but I’m
not sure all the lessons stuck. It was a fascinating read about how the use or
improper use of punctuation can set the world on fire. (Editorializing here….
Sweet!)





There are tooools on-line I could run this thing through, in fact, I subscribe to one. But what if I don’t want to? When is it okay just to freeform? Go commando? (N-e-v-e-r). Why do I need to worry about perfection of form when I’d rather use my blog space to ramble. Let her off the leash!





Surprising twist. I suppose this periphrastic composition is actually a blog. And there it is. Our
word of the day:





Periphrastic. Awesome word meaning circumlocutory, or
roundabout. Boom. A bonus word- circumlocutory.





Your welcome.





Shit.





You’re welcome.

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