Standing on Points: A Cultural History of Punctuation
Florence Hazrat
19 episodes
1 week ago
What this podcast is *not*: a rule guide on proper punctuation.
We'll only conjure the ghost of grammar in order to put it to rest.
What this podcast *is*: a journey through the weird behaviour of punctuation in the wild. Be prepared to amble on the placid path of the comma, get lost on the winding road of brackets, and arrive at the well-deserved rest of the full stop.
Along the way, we'll explore the past & future of punctuation, why a comma sparked the Russian Revolution, how to earn millions with a semicolon, and what your favourite mark says about you.
Mind your dots & dashes!
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What this podcast is *not*: a rule guide on proper punctuation.
We'll only conjure the ghost of grammar in order to put it to rest.
What this podcast *is*: a journey through the weird behaviour of punctuation in the wild. Be prepared to amble on the placid path of the comma, get lost on the winding road of brackets, and arrive at the well-deserved rest of the full stop.
Along the way, we'll explore the past & future of punctuation, why a comma sparked the Russian Revolution, how to earn millions with a semicolon, and what your favourite mark says about you.
Mind your dots & dashes!
Standing on Points: A Cultural History of Punctuation
1 hour 12 minutes 46 seconds
5 years ago
This. And Elsewhere: The History of the Index
What do fingers and books have in common? They point. To this. To elsewhere.
An index helps with that, that of the hand, and that in a book. But how did books actually come to have them? And what are they useful for?
This episode traces the development of indexes (or indices!), that under-estimated text navigation technology that's still with us today in for of Google searches.
Standing on Points: A Cultural History of Punctuation
What this podcast is *not*: a rule guide on proper punctuation.
We'll only conjure the ghost of grammar in order to put it to rest.
What this podcast *is*: a journey through the weird behaviour of punctuation in the wild. Be prepared to amble on the placid path of the comma, get lost on the winding road of brackets, and arrive at the well-deserved rest of the full stop.
Along the way, we'll explore the past & future of punctuation, why a comma sparked the Russian Revolution, how to earn millions with a semicolon, and what your favourite mark says about you.
Mind your dots & dashes!
