i tend to like punctuation marks cuz i think they're cute rather than for any real practical value. in spite of the fact that they're common keyboard punctuation, i like @ and & and *. i think people underappreciate them because of how common they are, but they're all really neat looking. i like how swirly the @ sign is, and i like its connection to computer-y culture. i like how ampersands look when they're actually being used, like, i actually think "Blank & Blank" is just, like, economical.

i also think lozenges and other diamond-type shapes are really neat. i've occasionally used them as a separator for things that are on the same row, like images or links or something. i also really like the fleuron because i think it looks nice and it has a neat name even if i never use it. i think i'm fond of dingbats in general. maybe that's frivolous of me, but fuck it, i like cool shapes

for practical use i really like a lot of stuff that was already mentioned in this thread -- the iteration mark is really neat conceptually. semicolons are underrated because there's really nothing which approximates that exact type of pause.

i used to like em dashes a lot and i probably overused them at one point in my life. these days, though, i just use hyphens and double hyphens for everything now because i got lazy and stopped caring really, and also frankly unspaced em dashes just don't scan that well in big chunks of text.

leave it to me to make an overlong rambling post about punctuation marks

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