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“The holiday started when Jeff Rubin, a former reporter, grew increasingly frustrated as he spotted errors in the newspaper.
“‘I
would sit at the kitchen table with my red Sharpie ... screaming
obscenities, which would upset my wife,’ Rubin told CNN. ‘She encouraged
me to find another outlet for my aggravation.’ . . .
“Rubin
said he wanted to help educators remind students that punctuation still
matters, even in an age of rapid-fire tweets and text messages.
“‘We
are graduating children from high schools now who cannot read and
cannot write. When these kids get out into the real world,
they’re going to be unemployable.’”
—Catherine E. Shoichet, writer, “Punctuation: Yep, it’s got its own holiday,” CNN, 2016.
• Editorial Comment: See, kids? commas are sexy.
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