Category: Writing
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Interrobang‽‽
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 21839: Ah, that much maligned, hated on, non-punctuation mark, the combined exclamation point and question mark, the interrobang. One of my favorite marks of punctuation, it is not accepted as standard. “What?!” You may exclaim wonderingly, but, much to your dismay and chagrin, there is not a punctuation…
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Catching Up On Filling In
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Dear E-Mail Subscribers and Other Readers, As I have been going through some old, backed up Word files I have been rewriting and posting some of the better ones here currently. I was in the 2008 folder and went to see if an entry had been copied here when I…
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The Ultimate Penultimate Pen
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People who’ve known me for any length of time know that I like pens, especially fountain pens. I have been this way for a long time and in fact, Carter and I coined a term, SPIP. Standard Pen In Pocket. I have, over the years, discovered a new term that…
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The Longest Streak Yet, To Date
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Since the beginning of this blog, I have not had a streak like this. On Friday, August 9, 2019, I announced that I was going to post an entry every day. Now, from that announcement until August 14, it was 6 days until I dropped the ball. Then I went…
