After my last post about punctuation, I was kindly informed by a friend that the space is actually grammatically correct in some places. Now that I know that, I feel much better about it. It still strikes me as odd, but only in the way that customs from other countries (or areas of countries) often do. Thanks for that information!

Now on to my newest rant, the ampersand. Why do people feel the need to double it? Do they realize that by typing “I went to the mall && bought a new shirt && pants,” that they’re actually typing “I went to the mall and and bought a new shirt and and pants? I know they probably don’t realize it, since if they knew what it meant, they’d use it correctly, but how did this start? Why did this start? And why is it continuing?

And on the same note, usually at the ends of those sentences, I see a semicolon or two. Who told the teens that a semicolon was a proper replacement for the period or the exclamation point?

Where are the teachers? I don’t get it. I learned a lot growing up; I thought other people did as well. Guess I was wrong.

By the way, I don’t think I’ll ever get the hang of these Canadian spellings of words. I have a Canadian English Dictionary extension for Firefox and all of these corrections it’s throwing at me baffle me. I leave some alone and change some, but it’s driving me nuts!