You may have noticed.
You may even be planning an intervention.
When I look back through my blog, emails, correspondence and even my thoughts, I take note that I am obsessed with the “dot, dot, dot”.
They are so cute, round and multiple. They are a perfect circle design element repeated three times. They are so dramatic in their effect. They are thought inducing, subtracting and multiplying. They are compact and can be taken almost anywhere. Oh, how I love the …. (the fourth one there is the actual period at the end of that sentence which I probably should have replaced with an exclamation point…((see how great that pause is there?)))
Which brings me to admit that this isn’t the first time I have been in love with punctuation…(stop me, now)…
My first crush was with the exclamation point!
I am perky by nature so the exclamation point and I really hit it off. Oh, how I could just bring any sentence more umph, visibility, and sass by just adding one of those!
It was easy! It was effortless! It was a trap…
…because too much of a good thing depletes its value. I was over-exclaiming!
Suddenly all those really important points were lost with all the other really important points.
I just had to start saying “no” to the exclamation point. I couldn’t go cold turkey. I couldn’t avoid my first love completely. I have had to go on punctuation limitation.
I have self-imposed a one exclamation point rule. Only one per event. Only one saved for the most important point thoughtfully and lovingly placed.
Oh, I have flirted with the ALL CAPS and the bold. I have even been known to use the –, or in extreme cases the italics. But for now, it will be the dot, dot, dot until…
I get help.
PS: A special thanks to JCK, Meg, Madge, Burgh Baby, Rachael and Amy who may have suffered through that post twice. It originally appeared 12-7-07.
i do the … thing all the time as well. and can i just say that although i am aware that HRH is probably your initials i always read it as “her royal highness”. i have no idea why!
oh yeah…and if I were stranded on a desert island, the 3 things I would want to take with me???
The
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I, too, am addicted to the “…”…they are so versatile!!!!!!!!!
I had a high school English teacher who wore a sweatshirt with a giant semi-colon on it….I want one!!!!!!!!!
So addicted to the dotdotdot…
Glad to find good company in all of your commenters, though!!
Came over from Jennifer at Playgroups…
(Love your layout…)
I too am horribly in love with….punctuation!
Just clicked over from Jennifer at Playgroups Are No Place For Children. Glad I did…you’re funny!
A blogger recently criticized my excessive use of exclamation points.
And then I deleted her from my reader…
I’ve got to be me and she can suck it!!!!!!!!
Hello! I found your blog off of Misty’s blog and I can’t believe how much I am already loving this blog! I think your hilarious!!!
Oh! I have the same problem with the “…”, I just can’t help myself!
I am going to add you to my blog roll so I can be sure to visit again soon!
I am addicted too. Just read my blog… they are everywhere. Maybe you could be my sponsor in recovery.
um, if you decide to click over to my blog, give me a couple of hours to *ahem* fix something up…
(dammit! Can’t even do a comment without them… *sigh*)
Oh man.. I have this problem too! And you posted about it in such a funny way. 🙂