The Guideb ook of New Punctu ation b y Carrie C F irman
The Guideb ook of New Punctu ation b y Carrie C F irman
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o Part 1: Hum
Did you get
un?
that clever p
Fake accent In jest Sarcasm e eye
Twinkle in th Wink
that Did you get
clever pun?
are so handy These gloves
t
Fake accen
oot it very, very g Yah, Gunter,
In jest re ld go buy mo Well, we cou chocolate
Sarcasm d and uments soun rg a r u o y d n fi Yes, I proceed would like to
e eye
Twinkle in th
I would love
g to come alon
Wink oin’ How YOU d
Part 2: Atti tu
de
Arrogance Back door c
ompliment
Brightly / po
sitively
Negatively
Careless / n
o filter
Confidence
Faking confi
dence
Cutting rem
ark
End of discu
ssion
Hope Patience / w it
h care
Pride Respect Sassy finger
Disrespect snap
Wisdom I would roll my eyes if it were socially acce ptable
Arrogance EO so , I know the C Lucky for me test b was no con getting this jo
ompliment
Back door c
, we must is impressive Your resumĂŠ at e same form have used th
ositively
Brightly / p
to do e experience Well, I have th job sure I’ll find a this and I am
Negatively and the et is flooded But the mark nant mpletely stag co is y m o n eco
o filter
Careless / n
at ould just look sh u o y e b y a Yeah, m itting lans –your kn p p u ck a b r u yo
Confidence grocery ting paid my it n k , lly a u ct A ol raduate scho bills during g
fidence
Faking con
t again, could do tha it re su m I’ o S ft fairs we’ve got cra
ark
Cutting rem
our way ck needling y Well, good lu to prosperity
ssion
End of discu
Thanks, I will
Hope s an report show ty ri a ch l a u n Our an onations increase in d
ith care
Patience / w
ize to get y will reorgan By 2020, the eed to those in n more of that
Pride ast ten rk over the p Our hard wo ess ught us succ years has bro
Respect st of is behind mo r e iz n a rg o r Ou ant solutely brilli this, she’s ab
Disrespect ost st hired the m ju ’s e sh h g u Tho singly istant, surpri arrogant ass
r snap
Sassy finge
got ng here if I’ve lo st la ’t n o w He o with it anything to d
Wisdom ’t help us attitude won That kind of ls meet our goa
my eyes if it I would roll y acceptable were sociall
ease iming to decr a e ’r e w ss le Un leasantries morale and p
uence
s of Infl e ic v e D d n ions a
t Part 3: Emo
Impatience Amusement
Loathing
Annoyance
Nervous
Begging t
g outrigh ing not to be
Try
Pleasure
Camp
Propaganda ble entendre
Randy / dou
t
Complimen
atically [Over] Dram
Regret Truthful
Excitement Fear Fibbing Flatness g
in Foreshadow
nsumption
co Immersion /
Amusemen
t
I absolutely lo ve this show , it’s so brilliantly do ne
Annoyance Sorry, could you move a b it to the right so the T V isn’t blocke d
Begging When it’s ov er could we p lease go get food so w e can eat tom orrow
Trying not to
beg outrigh
t
Well... it’s a m arathon, so m aybe we can go in the morning
Camp Darling, hon ey-pie, swee tie, I simply can’t get by w ithout my sco nes
Complimen
t
You do certa inly
make a good scone, I’ll giv e you that
[Over] Dram
atically
Yes, that’s all I’ve got, just th e scones, I’ve g ot nothing els e
Excitement Look look loo k this one’s a guest episode, these are the best
Fear Oh no, we’re really, truly n ever going to go g et food are w e
Fibbing Yeah, yeah, d on’t worry, w e will go after this one ends, okay
Flatness Yeah, sure
Impatience Look, I’ve hard ly had any tim e off this season a nd this is my break
Loathing And you pro mised me tha t we would spend that time tog ether
Nervous Please let’s n ot start in on this now
Foreshadow
ing
This isn’t the first time this has come up, but it will be the last
Immersion
/ consumpti
I’m sorry I just
on
can’t - think about anything else right now
Pleasure I know, and it
is wonderful to see you relax and enjoy someth ing
Propagand
a
TV is just perf ect for gettin g your mind off of th e office
Randy / dou
ble entendr
e
Well maybe I need your q uality “tube time”
Regret I know, I kno w... I never sh ould have taken this job , it has ruined us
Truthful But it is a big step up, you can move to a new job soon, and we ’ll be fine
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