Semicolon Shenanigans

August 22, 2013

Need to spice up your writing? Try one of McSweeney’s punctuation marks such as the Yellow-Winged Apostrophe, which likes “to ‘peace out’ of its obligation to indicate possession or contraction,” or the Academic Ellipsis, which “is used by those who wish to demonstrate just how much more they know about how to use ellipses than you do.”

is an associate editor for The Millions and an editor in Atlanta. She tweets at @temalone.