Punctuated... And How

Punctuation sure does get people angry. Witness the UK's Apostrophe Protection Society or this blog deriding unnecessary quotation marks.

And if any more proof was needed, you can find more than enough in the comments following David Crystal's article attacking Lynn Truss' "zero tolerance" policy towards punctuational incorrectness. Crystal really brought out the partisans. ("Contrary to what some posters above believe, the subjunctive has not disappeared in the English language, not at all." and "What I wrote was 'fully conjugated'. Your examples show the subjunctive is not fully conjugated. Indeed, it is not conjugated at all.") There are over 100 comments; it's fun reading.--David E