{"id":68814,"date":"2025-04-08T05:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=68814"},"modified":"2025-04-08T05:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:12:45","slug":"punctuation-hanging-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=68814","title":{"rendered":"Punctuation hanging out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Punctuation marks hanging out\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ky0YOo7_Y0o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Reprinting an <a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=66414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">xkcd from last fall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/university_commas_2x.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/university_commas_2x.png\" width=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mouseover title:<\/strong> \"The distinctive 'UCLA comma' and 'Michigan comma' are a long string of commas at the start and end of the sentence respectively.\"<\/p>\n<p>Note from that post:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I guess Penn, Brown, Berkeley, CalTech, &#8230;, should be grateful for being left out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I'll spare you our past posts on the Oxford comma, except <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/002932.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I'll add a link to \"<a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=67841\" target=\"_blank\">Comma\/Period ratios<\/a>\" (1\/6\/2025) as well, but I'm still sparing you the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22language+log%22+comma\" target=\"_blank\">dozens (hundred?) of other LLOG comma commentaries<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68816,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68814\/revisions\/68816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}