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According to Chase’s Calendar of Events, the faux holiday celebrates “the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis.”
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I am a full-time German to English translator. This blog is my creative outlet to share my knowledge and random musings. Despite the title of my blog, I am generally available for translation work – even if there might be a delay of a few days. You can contact me at gertoeng AT jill-sommer.com.
Musings from an overworked translator
I lament the widespread ignoring of single inverted commas (‘thus’) as opposed to double (“thus”). It seems the former are almost extinct, whereas the latter have been universalised.
It sounds like a great idea! There should be a National Punctuation Day on our side of the Pond, too!