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Your questions today come again from the August issue of The Atlantic, this time from Judith Shulevitz’s essay on a generational divide over punctuation symbolized in her relationship with her son.
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Atlantic Trivia
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What punctuation marks that were developed during the Renaissance did the Dutch scholar Erasmus call “little moons”?
Think of crescent moons in particular.
And by the way, did you know that the Writers Guild of America specifies when to spell out the word and in movie credits and when to use the ampersand symbol?
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If a movie script is written by “Drew and Jeff,” that means that the two worked on the project separately, possibly with one even rewriting the other; if the authors are “Drew & Jeff,” then the two worked as a team, like peas and carrots. Or, rather, peas & carrots.
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