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I remember back in school…

   Posted by: Technogirl   in My "tech" says...

…being taught all about the proper use of punctuation. Even when the topic was new (think grade school level), remembering that  a “comma is where you would take a breath if you were talking” and “a period is where you would stop” wasn’t that difficult a thing.

Some people apaprently missed those cozy little lessons way back when and continued to miss them throughout their entire lives. Otherwise, we would not receive tickets like this.

“oh my god i deleted a database that runs my forums and it had all my members in it and now most of the members are gone because my tech guy removed them from the table and can you restore from maybe the 23rd because i dont want to lose 9 years worth of work and my tech says you can put the database back and if you don’t have a backup i might cry”

Punctuation, motherfucker! Do you know any?

In everyday life, certainly at some point everyone encounters someone with the same runon abilities as our correspondent here. I’d say it’s more likely to be the verbal equivalent of that, and from my days on the phone at AOHell, I can guarantee that anyone who has ever worked tech for even a little slice of time will know this to be true. This sort of thing is obviously not restricted to the tech world, of course. In fact, even with this verbal diarrhea, you, too, could potentially be nominated to be the Vice President of the USA.

“Everything is going well and I’m out here in Arizona getting some fresh air even as we are studying up and reading a lot of voting records and realizing how extremely liberal the other ticket is so this is a good time to be here and I so look forward to tomorrow night getting to speak to Americans about the very, very clear choice they are going to have on November 4th.”

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