{"id":122,"date":"2008-08-07T20:36:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T03:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/?p=122"},"modified":"2008-08-07T20:36:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T03:36:48","slug":"he-may-have-a-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"He may have a point."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hi\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I like typography. I like ampersands.<\/p>\n<p>You say:  \u201cI like the ampersand. I think it is often the most attractive punctuation mark of them all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BUT\u2026 I hope this doesn\u2019t come across as cranky. Is the ampersand a punctuation mark? Isn\u2019t it more like an abbreviation?<\/p>\n<p>One doesn\u2019t use it to punctuate a sentence. \u201cYou need to correct the punctuation in that sentence\u201d wouldn\u2019t refer to an awkward or incorrect use of an ampersand.<\/p>\n<p>If someone wrote a sentence by hand and wrote an ampersand backwards, would we say \u201cyou need to punctuate that sentence properly\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Putting an ampersand in the wrong place is a TOTALLY different kind of error from putting a comma in the wrong place\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Wuh duh yuh think?<\/p>\n<p>   Tom<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He is right. The ampersand is most accurately a <em>character<\/em> and historically  <em>ligature<\/em> and not really a punctuation mark at all. Corrections will be made. <\/p>\n<p>The proper usage of the ampersand is something important to me. My love for the ampersand is deepest on the aesthetic and typographic level because I am a designer, but I always appreciate the perspective from the grammatical and linguistic angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi\u2026 I like typography. I like ampersands. You say: \u201cI like the ampersand. I think it is often the most attractive punctuation mark of them all.\u201d BUT\u2026 I hope this doesn\u2019t come across as cranky. Is the ampersand a punctuation mark? Isn\u2019t it more like an abbreviation? One doesn\u2019t use it to punctuate a sentence. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[46,152,233,291,573],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-this-blog","category-writing-about-ampersands","tag-ampersand","tag-corrections","tag-grammar","tag-language","tag-usage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}