Punctuation pooh-poohs

[cjsmith]

This? Is not grammatically correct.
Neither? Is this.
It makes prose? Sound whiny and ineffective.
When I do this? Somebody please kick my butt.

Almost every time I see an ellipsis... a comma would be better.
Commas indicate natural pauses in speaking... as this seems to be trying to do.
If it's meant to add emphasis... it's not working.
When I do this... somebody please kick my butt.

Comma splices are another one, each of these should be a sentence, it drives me crazy when I have to read it, I never know if the writer has a point in mind, in fact I usually start to figure they don't, I'm probably guilty of all three of these too sometimes, maybe I should have been a grade-school English teacher, this kind of thing really jumps out at me, when I do this somebody please kick my butt.

I feel better now.

Comments

[firecat]

The question marks? They bug me too.

And I am also not used to, certain ways that commas are used nowadays.

But when I have those reactions I feel old.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I feel old too. This leads me to wonder: does every generation seem careless and a little stupid to the preceding generations?

[firecat]

I think at the very least every generation seems to have really messed up taste in clothing to the preceding generations.