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| quote: | Originally posted by Orbax
Just because you do not punctuate does not make something a sentence.
"I smell poop."
"~"
The tilde, while not bracketed by any formal grammer (except quotes used for emphasis function) does not neccessarily have a period inside of the squiggly innards. It just happens to be a graphical representation of a sound, which is what words are anyways. So you still need a period. |
Tell that to an English professor.
btw...
sentence
1. a word, clause, or phrase or a group of clauses or phrases forming a syntactic unit which expresses an assertion, a question, a command, a wish, an exclamation, or the performance of an action, that in writing begins with a capital letter and concludes with appropriate end punctuation, and that in speaking is distinguished by characteristic patterns of stress, pitch, and pauses
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