Serious Issue ....... that MUST be Addressed !!!!!

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  compound complex

  Thanks, Steve and LV101, for your comments.

  Since this is my profession, I will chime in with a link that has drawn no little interest:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/239701/more-on-punctuation

  Note that the title reads out loud as "Moron Punctuation." ('Moron Punctuation'. [Brit.])

  As already mentioned by other posters, there is an absolute distinction between American English and British English punctuation, e.g., the use of single ("inverted commas," I recall) and double quotation marks and placement of periods and commas within or without close of quotation marks. When editing, I make this distinction in punctuation, depending upon what side of the pond my client lives and writes . . .

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  Half banana

  Girl next door, since you mentioned one of my favourite poets Emily Dickinson; Wendy Cope an English poet and academic gives a response to her unconventional punctuation:

  Higgledy-piggledy
  Emily Dickinson
  Liked to use dashes
  Instead of full stops.

  Nowadays, faced with such
  Idiosyncrasy,
  Critics and editors
  Send for the cops.

  ~Emily Dickinson by Wendy Cope
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  sir82

  Seems like a good place for this:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7BXPKyikB0
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  LV101

  Thanks, Coco. I love your English instruction. Think you should have an online class and grade no lower than a C!

  Best -
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  compound complex

  You're welcome, LV101!

  The retired teachers and professor of English and creative writing enjoy the class I lead (led?).

  One of my greatest joys is teaching language arts to a pre-teen student with learning disabilities; she has been evaluated and tests in at 130-plus IQ. An entire team of educators is working with her. When she talks, one is hearing a "professor" explain in explicit detail this or that scientific matter of great consequence, IHHO.
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  LoveUniHateExams

  Hi Coco nice to hear from you. Hope you're keeping well.

  One of my greatest joys is teaching language arts to a pre-teen student with learning disabilities; she has been evaluated and tests in at 130-plus IQ - wow! She sounds much more like a pre-teen with learning plus-abilities!

  I hope you and other dedicated educators help her realise her potential.

  And then there's me. I've never taken the IQ test but I assume I'm average (100 IQ give or take).

  Just gotta work with the hand I've been dealt, huh! XD
  
  
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  redvip2000

  Boy, some people have way too much time on their hands.
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  Badfish

  My Pet Peeve Is Those People On The Internet Who Capitalize The First Letter Of Each Word In Every Sentence They Write.
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  amiable atheist

  Punctuation matters:

  "Let's eat Grandma." — "Let's eat, Grandma."

  Correct punctuation saves lives.

  A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder. "I am a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up." The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

  "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

  So, punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life and death.

  

  This book is fun and informative. I read it cover to cover in a day; and then I did it again ...
  
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  LV101

  AA -- that's hilarious! I needed the laugh as this World Series baseball game is distressing.