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Punctuation Problems, Part 2: With the Beatles
Manage episode 356095564 series 3424318
How litigious are the rights holders of the most beloved catalogue in music? Join us as we find out, stopping along the way to dish on Dick Morris, Ugly Kid Joe, Vladimir Nabokov, Mad Men, and (oh yeah) a dense little handful of troublesome marks: questions and quotations, colons and semis, dashes and parens.
Questions/comments/ideas/snark go in the comments. We love you.
Thing 1: Ryan Davis
Thing 2: Mike Laws
Producer: Amanda Darrach
Find all your favorite Red Pen songs over on the Red Pen Official Playlist.
To use Red Pen chapters, swipe up on the Now Playing screen or click the top-right-corner Chapters button on Apple Podcasts for macOS.
Chapters
1. Punctuation Problems, Part 2: With the Beatles (00:00:00)
2. Running quotations (00:06:38)
3. Semicolons (00:09:55)
4. Colons (00:13:23)
5. Colons and full sentences (00:21:04)
6. Colons and semicolons with quotation marks (00:24:34)
7. Exclamation points and question marks (00:25:46)
8. Em dashes and parentheses (00:35:01)
9. Hyphens (00:44:30)
10. Suspended hyphens (00:50:03)
11. Track changes: AP possessives (00:53:26)
36 episodes
Manage episode 356095564 series 3424318
How litigious are the rights holders of the most beloved catalogue in music? Join us as we find out, stopping along the way to dish on Dick Morris, Ugly Kid Joe, Vladimir Nabokov, Mad Men, and (oh yeah) a dense little handful of troublesome marks: questions and quotations, colons and semis, dashes and parens.
Questions/comments/ideas/snark go in the comments. We love you.
Thing 1: Ryan Davis
Thing 2: Mike Laws
Producer: Amanda Darrach
Find all your favorite Red Pen songs over on the Red Pen Official Playlist.
To use Red Pen chapters, swipe up on the Now Playing screen or click the top-right-corner Chapters button on Apple Podcasts for macOS.
Chapters
1. Punctuation Problems, Part 2: With the Beatles (00:00:00)
2. Running quotations (00:06:38)
3. Semicolons (00:09:55)
4. Colons (00:13:23)
5. Colons and full sentences (00:21:04)
6. Colons and semicolons with quotation marks (00:24:34)
7. Exclamation points and question marks (00:25:46)
8. Em dashes and parentheses (00:35:01)
9. Hyphens (00:44:30)
10. Suspended hyphens (00:50:03)
11. Track changes: AP possessives (00:53:26)
36 episodes
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