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<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ?/!]</span>/ <span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ?/!]</span><br><br>Nina Power<br><br>Part 1: <span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ?/!]</span><br><br>“[T]he entire thrust of the LTI The Langue of the Third Reich was towards visualisation<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>and if this process of visualizing could be achieved with recourse to Germanic traditions<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>by means of a runic sign<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>then so much the better<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>And as a jagged character the rune of life was related to the SS symbol<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>and as an ideological symbol also related to the spokes of the wheel of the sun<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>the swastika <span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ;/…]</span>Renan’s position: the question mark – the most important of all punctuation marks<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>A position in direct opposition to National Socialist intransigence and self-confidence <span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ;/…]</span>From time to time it is possible to detect<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>both amongst individuals and groups<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>a characteristic preference for one particular punctuation mark<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>Renan the sceptic declares that it is impossible to overuse the question mark<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span> – Victor Klemperer<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>‘Punctuation’ from The Language of the Third Reich[1]<br><br><br>In the era of emojis<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>we have forgotten about the politics of punctuation<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>Which mark or sign holds sway over us in the age of Twitter<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>Facebook<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>YouTube comments<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>emails<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>and text messages<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ?/!]</span>If we take the tweets of Donald Trump as some kind of symptomatic indicator<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>we can see quite well that it is the exclamation mark – <span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ?/!]</span>– that dominates<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>A quick look at his tweets from the last 48 hour period shows that almost all of them end with a single declarative sentence or word followed by a ‘<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ?/!]</span>: ‘Big trade imbalance<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ?/!]</span><span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>‘No more<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ?/!]</span><span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>‘They’ve gone CRAZY<span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ?/!]</span><span style="color: grey;">[circle the right punctuation ,/.]</span>‘Happy National Anthem Day<s
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