Poll #58: Favorite Punctuation Mark

[Shaun]

Alright, so here's a more silly poll for you all. What is your favorite punctuation mark and why?

[Jaz]

I love the semi-colon. I don't know why, I just think it's a really cool punctuation mark. It just looks so civilised. Just ignore me, I'm babbling...

[Lykaios]

Ellipsis. It's got a cool name and I like the way you can write it differently . . . :)

[sXe_Jinxeh]

I love ellipses. Anybody who's read any of my writing knows that. >.<

But I think they can work like anywhere. You can use them in any situation, they make dialogue much more realistic.

. . .

[Shaun]

I'd have to say the semicolon, with the dash being a close second. Not sure why, I just find the semicolon an underused and underrated punctuation mark.

[Bowie20049]

I'm first on quotations. Personally, I like dialogue a lot...

[GeorgeMichael]

All about the ellipsis... because I said so...


Seriously though, look how awesome this is...

And to think, I didn't even know what it was called until last year...

[Majyk]

I'd have to say the dash. Don't really know why. Allthough the ellipsis is cool, too, and I do like semicolons.

[Alice Glitterhorn]

I love exclamation marks, because they're just so loud!!!! Without the exclamation mark, you would never be able to yell across the computer or make someone in a story be excited/angry/anything else and it would be exciting! :D

[Jellybelly]

Haha anyone who posted in my hello thread knows I'd have to respond to this.

The comma, because I just can't seem to end anything and I just want to keep going, and going, and going, and you can keep going with a comma and almost never stop, because that's the magic of commas you see, it could be a half a page long and the sentence still hasn't ended.

But I think you get my point..I mean, comma.

[Melo]

"I like quotation marks." I said.

[jordanisonfire]

;

Cos it's sexy, o' course.

[Fiction]

I'd have to say the dash.

w00t w00t!! Me too.

[Jaywing]

I like the exclamation mark! It can represent so many things. I also like the ellipse.

[Rose]

Dash. :3

Ellipsis and semicolon are awesome, too.

[Majyk]

Ellipsis and semicolon are awesome, too.

Aren't they all awesome? :p

[OceanWater]

Ellipse. Because, it's one of the more uncommonly names for a Punctuation Mark. Also because it illustrates action and unknownness. And because it's awesome.

[Clawfire]

Semicolon/elipse are my favourites!

[FayGee]

Mine is the ellipse. Although I never knew it had a name, I use it all the time! Quite useful...

After that would probably be the exclamation mark. I love it!

[Kalculator]

Full stop FTW!

......................................................<--army of dots

[jsyk]

I like the double dash (--) because it's kind of like a semi-colon, but different. Plus, I tend to interrupt a lot in my dialogue, like:

"Yeah, but--"
"I don't want to hear it!"

Double dash, lol. I love it. :)

[lalodragon]

I love the semicolon, for some strange reason. I think my poems show that; I have to watch or I'll find that every sentence has one. Then the sentence stretches on; some people don't like that...
The ellipsis is a close second...

[bookworm]

I have a particular liking for the semicolon which I simply cannot explain. Then it's the ellipse.

*realises she said exactly the same thing as Lalo*

[Anira]

I love the semicolon, for some strange reason. I think my poems show that; I have to watch or I'll find that every sentence has one. Then the sentence stretches on; some people don't like that...
The ellipsis is a close second...

This is exactly how I feel too.

[Inkweaver]

Semicolons all the way! Although I love the ellipse and the dash to. Why have one period when you can have three?

[Dabs]

Semi-colon, just cuz it makes things sound smoother a lot of the time.