Oh my gosh you guys, did you hear that Michael Jackson died!? It was like a totally big deal – can you believe that 30% of tweets when he died were about him!? Unbelievable.  People all over the internet were really interested. He died so hard that he almost broke the internet.  (You guys already [...]

I have previously determined that the semicolon is the gayest punctuation mark, ending decades of bloodshed and multigenerational feuds, but which letter of the alphabet is the gayest?  It’s a very important question.  If we want the New York state assembly to pass a gay marriage bill, or if we ever hope to overturn Prop [...]

What’s up, fellow grammar nerds! I read this article in the Guardian about exclamation points via Sullivan over the weekend.  The best bit in the piece:
Carol Waseleski’s unexpectedly diverting paper, Gender and the Use of Exclamation Points in Computer-Mediated Communication, found that women used more exclamation marks than men. But why was this?…[Waseleski] concluded that [...]