048 April Fools' Day Episode
Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.
Mignon Fogarty, Inc.
4.5 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2007
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Grammer Girl here, today we're going to talk about the semi-colon, the Roger Clinton of |
| 0:09.6 | the punctuation world. |
| 0:11.9 | Considered more useful than the regular colon by most grammar scholars, because of its |
| 0:16.1 | ability to form a weaking smiley face, which is far cuter than the traditional smiley face |
| 0:21.2 | emoticon, the semi-colon can also, oh, it looks like we have a call! |
| 0:28.2 | I had to do their Grammer Girl, this dude, you know, I, I seen you over there on the |
| 0:35.4 | Grand Old Oprah show the other day and it affected me so that I just had to give you |
| 0:44.4 | a call and tell you that she done just real nice on there and you're a good-looking woman |
| 0:52.1 | too. |
| 0:53.1 | Anyway, I got a question, I run a bingo party down here, and you know, the day, this fella |
| 0:59.1 | come in dressed up like an engine or something kind of thing, and anyway, I just a little |
| 1:03.6 | put off by him at first, but after I got known, he's rising rain. |
| 1:07.7 | Anyway, we got into a little bit of conversation, I'm hoping you can put it into it. |
| 1:13.3 | He's playing bingo, and we don't know if, when you're bingoing, if you win the game |
| 1:19.6 | of bingo, are he, can you say that you're bingoing? |
| 1:24.5 | And I'm bingoing, I'm bingoed, and if you win more than two games of bingo, you got |
| 1:34.0 | your bingoes. |
| 1:35.0 | Alright, well, my question to you is stirrup hunts, and I think you might have kindly |
| 1:41.4 | for putting up with me, I feel like ever since I started listening to you show that it's |
| 1:46.9 | really improved my entire lexicon, and it's made me more verboseness in my whole way |
| 1:55.9 | of presenting myself, and I really do thank you kindly. |
| 2:00.2 | Hi Stewart, and first off, I'm sorry to hear about your battle with the mysterious assassins |
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