[Because this bears repeating in such desperate times]
Scientists report that a recent rise in the overuse of punctuation marks will ultimately lead to the demise of the common message. It is not known if the increasing trend of ending a sentence with multiple and in some cases, mixed, punctuation marks is the result of the natural evolution of messaging, or if human actions are speeding the process. What is clear, though, is that punctuation marks and messages are not taking their impending doom lying down.
In a rare twist of bipartisanship, punctuation marks and messages came together to call for measures to halt the message crisis and return our civilization back to the days of making points in a clear, concise manner. Speaking for the punctuators, Exclamation point stated, "I'm a loner. You don't need two of me. The whole purpose of my existence is to accentuate a point. I thought I was doing that just fine already." Mr. Question Mark had this to say, "I went to Catholic school. You know, those places where you actually had to diagram sentences and such? There is no way Sr. Polenska would have allowed sentences to end in more than one question mark. You're talking rulers to the knuckles, baby."
Members of The Collective
Union of Simple Messages spoke out in agreement with their Punctuation
Brethren. WTF was quoted as saying, "Why? Don't you get it? As if I'm
not forceful enough. Do people really have to put 4 exclamation points
after me? Really!" To that end, Really said, "WTF! I know!" The period
was a little more to the point and summed up the whole crisis.
"Basically, messaging is getting lost in the forest of multiple
punctuation marks. When you put !!!!?????!!!! at the end of LOL, it is
not clear if one is being sarcastic, sincere, or if they are not sure if
they should be LOLing. Our society will not be able to sustain itself
with this loss of messaging. How are we going to communicate? It's bad
enough that whole words have been downsized to the point of extinction.
We cannot afford to allow simple messages from being lost as well."
The two groups have joined efforts to spur a "!!!!!??????!!!!!!! WTF?" Campaign to try to raise awareness of punctuation mark abuse. It is not clear if they will embrace the Emoticons' offer to help fight messaging loss. There has been some tension between the CUOSM and the Emoticons. Simple messages feel that this may be a power grab by emoticons who have long threatened the jobs of simple messages. To that, we add, WTH? :-(.
Scientists report that a recent rise in the overuse of punctuation marks will ultimately lead to the demise of the common message. It is not known if the increasing trend of ending a sentence with multiple and in some cases, mixed, punctuation marks is the result of the natural evolution of messaging, or if human actions are speeding the process. What is clear, though, is that punctuation marks and messages are not taking their impending doom lying down.
In a rare twist of bipartisanship, punctuation marks and messages came together to call for measures to halt the message crisis and return our civilization back to the days of making points in a clear, concise manner. Speaking for the punctuators, Exclamation point stated, "I'm a loner. You don't need two of me. The whole purpose of my existence is to accentuate a point. I thought I was doing that just fine already." Mr. Question Mark had this to say, "I went to Catholic school. You know, those places where you actually had to diagram sentences and such? There is no way Sr. Polenska would have allowed sentences to end in more than one question mark. You're talking rulers to the knuckles, baby."
Members of The Collective
Union of Simple Messages spoke out in agreement with their Punctuation
Brethren. WTF was quoted as saying, "Why? Don't you get it? As if I'm
not forceful enough. Do people really have to put 4 exclamation points
after me? Really!" To that end, Really said, "WTF! I know!" The period
was a little more to the point and summed up the whole crisis.
"Basically, messaging is getting lost in the forest of multiple
punctuation marks. When you put !!!!?????!!!! at the end of LOL, it is
not clear if one is being sarcastic, sincere, or if they are not sure if
they should be LOLing. Our society will not be able to sustain itself
with this loss of messaging. How are we going to communicate? It's bad
enough that whole words have been downsized to the point of extinction.
We cannot afford to allow simple messages from being lost as well."The two groups have joined efforts to spur a "!!!!!??????!!!!!!! WTF?" Campaign to try to raise awareness of punctuation mark abuse. It is not clear if they will embrace the Emoticons' offer to help fight messaging loss. There has been some tension between the CUOSM and the Emoticons. Simple messages feel that this may be a power grab by emoticons who have long threatened the jobs of simple messages. To that, we add, WTH? :-(.