Punctuation Marks Get Their Day (-- ‘Finally!?’)
A local businessman driven crazy by misplaced commas, ellipses and quotation marks has created a new holiday, National Punctuation Day, to be celebrated today.
Jeff Rubin, who runs a newsletter production business, launched the holiday after years of reading the newspaper, red pen in hand, circling examples of poor punctuation.
On his “more serious Type A personality days,” as Rubin described them, he would send the offending newspapers back with nasty notes attached.
“Now it has become a mission for me,” Rubin said. “I’m really trying to help people pay more attention to punctuation and how it affects their business life.”
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