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TheLongWayHome · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 1016 Location: San Luis Piojosi

I love the way Mexicans use the ' and the " in their own misguided way. This is the strangest attempt I've seen to date:

A play area for kids called:
Funny'
Kids

I can see what they were going for but... Laughing

Any others?

notamiss · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject:

The Mexican comma, most often separates the subject from the rest of the sentence. But, it can appear in other places in the sentence. I see it used, by writers at all levels of education and literacy. My theory, is that it is due to schoolchildren having been taught, "put a comma, wherever you would take a breath if you were reading out loud."

http://www.machetearte.com/machetes2/1038/doc1.htm Here are some classic examples in the wild. See the initial sentences of paragraphs 3, 7 and 11.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

I've seen a lot of terrible punctuation in written English assignments from students, mostly at the business level in my case. The Run On Sentence is the most common. 350 words and a single period.

MO39 · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject:

MELEE · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject:

We've talked about the way they use "quotes" to make a word jump out at you.

One of my favorite signs