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Making our mark

Discussions about punctuation needn’t be dull affairs. Consider these breathtaking scenes:

When they arrived, Smith said he and Jones hid on a porch and began to make calls to the person they planned to rob.

Comments

Copy editors have been dropping like flies, no?

I am curious about what this mini story is.  The English language in print is no longer of import in today's papers, whether it is on line or else.

It is another expamle of the dumming down of our culture, our society.  Words do matter because communication matters.