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		<title>By: NoSheds</title>
		<link>http://www.dorkadore.com/columns-opinion/how-the-internet-is-totally-changing-punctuation/comment-page-1/#comment-358</link>
		<dc:creator>NoSheds</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My last reply:  &quot;PS – I use the to go with the / as you can see above&quot; would have made more sense if the Less Than and Greater Than signs hadn&#039;t been stripped out by the messageboard.  Oh-well!
I can see why though
LESS THAN Format C: Drive GREATER THAN
:-)

PS - I know...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My last reply:  &#8220;PS – I use the to go with the / as you can see above&#8221; would have made more sense if the Less Than and Greater Than signs hadn&#8217;t been stripped out by the messageboard.  Oh-well!<br />
I can see why though<br />
LESS THAN Format C: Drive GREATER THAN<br />
 <img src='http://www.dorkadore.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>PS &#8211; I know&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Alex</title>
		<link>http://www.dorkadore.com/columns-opinion/how-the-internet-is-totally-changing-punctuation/comment-page-1/#comment-349</link>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>¬ means something if you&#039;ve studied symbolic logic. It means &quot;not&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>¬ means something if you&#8217;ve studied symbolic logic. It means &#8220;not&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: NoSheds</title>
		<link>http://www.dorkadore.com/columns-opinion/how-the-internet-is-totally-changing-punctuation/comment-page-1/#comment-234</link>
		<dc:creator>NoSheds</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I use ellipses a *lot*...

But one thing I think you&#039;ve missed - is the hyphen, or dash seems to have replaced the semi colon and the colon - and in some cases - though not all - fullstops and commas!

Now can someone please explain to me in simple terms please, what is supposed to be difference in meaning between a dash (-), an em-dash and an en-dash? 

PS - I use the  to go with the / as you can see above, and I haven&#039;t broken the internet yet, but there&#039;s still time I suppose!  http://www.savetheinternet.com - but that&#039;s a different story...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I use ellipses a *lot*&#8230;</p>
<p>But one thing I think you&#8217;ve missed &#8211; is the hyphen, or dash seems to have replaced the semi colon and the colon &#8211; and in some cases &#8211; though not all &#8211; fullstops and commas!</p>
<p>Now can someone please explain to me in simple terms please, what is supposed to be difference in meaning between a dash (-), an em-dash and an en-dash? </p>
<p>PS &#8211; I use the  to go with the / as you can see above, and I haven&#8217;t broken the internet yet, but there&#8217;s still time I suppose!  <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.savetheinternet.com</a> &#8211; but that&#8217;s a different story&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Katie</title>
		<link>http://www.dorkadore.com/columns-opinion/how-the-internet-is-totally-changing-punctuation/comment-page-1/#comment-110</link>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s what they&#039;re for, so you obviously knew how to use them even if you didn&#039;t know what they were called!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s what they&#8217;re for, so you obviously knew how to use them even if you didn&#8217;t know what they were called!</p>
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		<title>By: Charles</title>
		<link>http://www.dorkadore.com/columns-opinion/how-the-internet-is-totally-changing-punctuation/comment-page-1/#comment-103</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How are you guys making your keyboard do that?

Hang on.

_-}[~/&lt;

Okay, have you people got some secret web geek key not available to humble charity workers?

Either way, it looks like it&#039;s designed to communicate that stage of Hangman when you&#039;ve got two letters wrong, if you&#039;re one of those freaks who doesn&#039;t draw the vertical line first.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How are you guys making your keyboard do that?</p>
<p>Hang on.</p>
<p>_-}[~/&lt;</p>
<p>Okay, have you people got some secret web geek key not available to humble charity workers?</p>
<p>Either way, it looks like it&#039;s designed to communicate that stage of Hangman when you&#039;ve got two letters wrong, if you&#039;re one of those freaks who doesn&#039;t draw the vertical line first.</p>
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		<title>By: Katie</title>
		<link>http://www.dorkadore.com/columns-opinion/how-the-internet-is-totally-changing-punctuation/comment-page-1/#comment-102</link>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t mind ellipses if they&#039;re used right. The thing that bothers me is the weird blog posts you get that are written almost in note form, strung together with dots. Usually, these also appear on blogs where people write song lyrics randomly in the middle of a post and change their formatting to &quot;centre&quot;. 

The @ thing is weird because it takes as long to type and to write. And I too am holding out for the day when we can use the ¬ key. It&#039;s going to be a big moment for me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t mind ellipses if they&#8217;re used right. The thing that bothers me is the weird blog posts you get that are written almost in note form, strung together with dots. Usually, these also appear on blogs where people write song lyrics randomly in the middle of a post and change their formatting to &#8220;centre&#8221;. </p>
<p>The @ thing is weird because it takes as long to type and to write. And I too am holding out for the day when we can use the ¬ key. It&#8217;s going to be a big moment for me.</p>
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		<title>By: raxraxrax.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; links for 2009-10-27</title>
		<link>http://www.dorkadore.com/columns-opinion/how-the-internet-is-totally-changing-punctuation/comment-page-1/#comment-100</link>
		<dc:creator>raxraxrax.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; links for 2009-10-27</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: StuartW</title>
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		<dc:creator>StuartW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Katie, I had no idea you had an issue with ellipses... I use them *a lot*, I realise now...

I&#039;d add the use of &quot;@&quot; instead of &quot;at&quot; outside of Twitter - because sometimes two letters is one too many.

Kind of holding out for ¬ to start meaning something, too. Can we come up with something?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Katie, I had no idea you had an issue with ellipses&#8230; I use them *a lot*, I realise now&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;d add the use of &#8220;@&#8221; instead of &#8220;at&#8221; outside of Twitter &#8211; because sometimes two letters is one too many.</p>
<p>Kind of holding out for ¬ to start meaning something, too. Can we come up with something?</p>
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		<title>By: Robyn</title>
		<link>http://www.dorkadore.com/columns-opinion/how-the-internet-is-totally-changing-punctuation/comment-page-1/#comment-98</link>
		<dc:creator>Robyn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I really really really hope you do have an email folder marked &#039;nobber&#039;. I&#039;ve just consigned myself to it if it exists, haven&#039;t I?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I really really really hope you do have an email folder marked &#8216;nobber&#8217;. I&#8217;ve just consigned myself to it if it exists, haven&#8217;t I?</p>
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		<title>By: uberVU - social comments</title>
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		<dc:creator>uberVU - social comments</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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