National Punctuation Day is "a celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis," says a description on the National Punctuation Day website.Founder Jeff Rubin has a haiku contest to commemorate the marks that make the meaning of our words clear to everyone. Rubin is also accepting photos of poorly punctuated signs for posting on the site.According to CNN, Rubin, a newsletter publisher and former reporter, grew increasingly frustrated with the errors in the newspaper."I would sit at the kitchen table with my red Sharpie...screening obscenities, which would upset my wife," Rubin told CNN. "She encouraged me to find another outlet for my aggravation."Founded in 2004, National Punctuation Day was started to help educate students that punctuation still matters in an age of text messages and tweets."We are graduating children from high schools now who cannot read and write," Rubin says, "When these kids get out into the real world, they're going to be unemployable."According to Boston.com, celebrating National Punctuation Day is relatively simple. You can read a newspaper and mark all punctuation errors with a red pen (yes, it has to be red), take a walk while noticing punctuation errors on store signs, or visit a bookstore and purchase a punctuation book.National Grammar Day is March 4, so mark your calendars!
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