Penis Punctuation

penis punctuation Just a nun, picking some penis for lunch. Yes, yes, I know.  The title is click-baity to get people reading. But it’s true. There is phallic-based punctuation. I mean, a mark looking like a penis, and deliberately being called so. But let’s begin at the beginning. In classical times, there was no such thing as […]

Crassly Stupid: Welcome to the World of Grammar (and Rhetoric)

crassly stupid: welcome to the world of grammar (and rhetoric) A while ago, at the end of May or beginning of June, I wrote an encyclopedia entry on the role of punctuation in literature (and not a cameo appearance at that!), and was thrown back to the basics – or so I thought: the basics […]