62 Grammar Memes And Jokes From 2019Oh, you like the Oxford comma? Name every instance it’s resolved ambiguity.By by Emerson MaloneBuzzFeed News Reporter and by Sarah SchweppeBuzzFeed News ReporterPosted on December 27, 2019, 7:25 pmTwitterFacebookLink 1. brian david gilbert @briamgilbert this ad is one comma away from truly grasping the millennial mindset 07:20 PM - 02 Jul 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 2. Josh Billinson @jbillinson It's certainly a big day for Nancy Pecongresscongress Today Todaylosi 04:34 PM - 03 Jan 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 3. Colin Morris @HalfEatenScone People's attempts to spell "Gyllenhaal", as a Sankey diagram. Success rate ≈ 20% 04:53 PM - 14 Jan 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 4. BuzzFeed @BuzzFeed We really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really need you to capitalize the F in BuzzFeed 09:59 PM - 22 Jan 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 5. Lisa Harney #FreeChelseaManning @lisaquestions "X is a made up word." Please, tell me more about the all natural words that grew on the word bushes and were harvested by the word farmers in bushels and sent to the word market. 06:58 AM - 06 Feb 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 6. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide You’re throwing an *Oscars* party, not an *Oscar* party, and also why won’t anyone invite me 11:47 PM - 19 Feb 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 7. Hayes Brown @HayesBrown ...Is "yeeted" the past tense of "yeet"? 07:48 PM - 11 Apr 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 8. Scott Aukerman @ScottAukerman dick pick [sic] 04:00 PM - 08 Feb 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 9. Misha Panarin, very regime-like @panarin_misha choose your gary 07:28 PM - 19 Feb 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 10. Mohammed Kloub @LessIsMoh “How many times did you use an em dash in this story?” 07:09 PM - 27 Feb 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 11. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide people after I start editing in AP style: are you ok? me: yeah, I'm fine :) my headphones: Oxford Comma – Vampire Weeknd 2:45 ━━━━━━❍── 3:16 ↻ ⊲ Ⅱ ⊳ ↺ volume: ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇ 100% 04:18 PM - 28 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 12. Matt Berman @Mr_Berman what is this punctuation what does this mean 06:33 PM - 01 Mar 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 13. anna ho ho horges ❄️ @annabroges my therapist: so how depressed would you say you’ve been feeling lately? me: well i've been using more commas and semicolons than em dashes my therapist [scribbling notes]: holy shit 03:26 PM - 08 Mar 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 14. JLJ @jameslucasjones the only fan edit of captain marvel i want is someone adding a comma on the “thank you stan” opening card 01:21 PM - 12 Mar 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 15. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide Oh, you like the Oxford comma? Name every instance it's resolved ambiguity. 07:09 PM - 24 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 16. Alberto Nardelli @AlbertoNardelli brexiting 01:44 PM - 27 Mar 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 17. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide me adding more em dashes vs. my editor taking them out 09:09 PM - 01 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 18. Dan Trachtenberg @DannyTRS Love the new Star Wars trailer. Cried at the title. The placement of the “The” is genius. 06:15 PM - 12 Apr 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 19. Benjamin Dreyer @BCDreyer The #MuellerReport is indeed a national disgrace. By which of course I mean the double spaces after the periods. 07:24 PM - 19 Apr 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 20. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide Us at the beginning of the decade: Hmm, maybe we could lowercase "Internet"? us at the end of the decade: all capitalization is meaningless unless you're entering a password 10:17 PM - 05 Dec 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 21. Saying Grace by A Pinetree (this is for Christmas) @VinegarwithaP The adverb of "willy nilly" is "willilly nillilly" 09:03 PM - 23 Apr 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 22. Glen Weldon @ghweldon My extremely cool and patient middle-of-the-night copy editor, who has never seen GoT, keeps changing “direwolf” to “dire wolf” and I never want to tell her because I like having her think that I keep using the same weird adjective when describing wolves. 03:33 AM - 01 May 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 23. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide cultural impact: █ █ █ █ _ the em dash every other punctuation mark 05:06 PM - 20 Sep 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 24. Lucas Kwan Peterson @lucaspeterson I have used two tiny dashes in the copy I just turned in and which You will have to turn into an em dash Forgive me it was way easier and I literally cannot for the life of me ever, ever remember how make an em dash 09:29 PM - 17 May 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 25. Dan McQuade @dhm Can’t believe they arrested two puppies https://t.co/9RnOryp5MS 02:49 PM - 30 May 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 26. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide 07:51 PM - 09 Dec 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 27. sai 🙃 @adversaising guys i managed to start a discussion about grammar in the NBA subreddit 04:32 PM - 31 May 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 28. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide flight attendant: is there a doctor on board? dad: *nudge* could’ve been you copy editor: *sigh* flight attendant: we need someone to explain dangling modifiers dad: what? copy editor: see!!! 07:25 PM - 27 Nov 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 29. Jon Bois @jon_bois keys to being a good editor - jump in the writer’s google doc and rapidly highlight arbitrary pieces of text while they’re writing - go to the top of the doc while they’re trying to type and just go to town on backspace/enter - comment “?” on every 35th word no matter what it is 09:52 PM - 24 Jul 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 30. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide gonna tell my kids this is French 10:27 PM - 19 Nov 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 31. sarah schweppe @schweptaway live footage of me removing unnecessary commas 07:30 PM - 06 Jun 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 32. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide No copy editor has all three: • an understanding of the proofreading marks • no typos in their emails • a laissez-faire attitude about the Oxford comma 09:37 PM - 11 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 33. Grace Segers @Grace_Segers Me, writing an email: I'm using an exclamation point so you know I'm friendly and excited! But now I'm using a period so that you know I'm not crazy. Here's another sentence with a period as a buffer, proving my normalness. Thanks so much! 06:00 PM - 24 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 34. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide 10:02 PM - 16 Dec 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 35. Kari Koeppel @karikoeppel @_marzipantz_ 09:15 PM - 06 Dec 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 36. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide people using hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes interchangeably 07:25 PM - 18 Nov 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 37. Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln Finally, an alignment chart all writers can agree on. 03:03 PM - 17 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 38. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide Hi, I'm a BuzzFeed copy editor. You might know me from some of my greatest hits like "the 'f' is capitalized," "use the singular they," "pleaded not pled," and "Jay-Z is hyphenated (again)." https://t.co/c6vl60D8Ec 01:10 AM - 22 Jan 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 39. Sherlocution Holmes @sherlocution "Hospitals named after sandwiches kill five." 08:56 PM - 12 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 40. Tom Freeman @SnoozeInBrief I keep parsing this heading as a poetic description of what happens in quantum physics. 07:47 PM - 11 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 41. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide hyphen - easy to miss - entry-level punctuation - unremarkable en dash - easy on the eyes - bridges divides - galactic flex 07:49 PM - 18 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 42. Sherlocution Holmes @sherlocution "Doctor: No heart, cognitive issues" 03:02 PM - 13 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 43. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide copy editors explaining the difference between hyphens and en dashes: anyone else: 05:18 PM - 07 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 44. Mike Pope @mikepope Let's face it, commas are troublesome 08:45 PM - 12 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 45. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide Some of y’all didn’t edit your friends’ essays for free in high school and it shows. 10:05 PM - 15 Nov 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 46. Addy Baird @addysbaird Please, debate, etc: is the plural of starburst 12:25 AM - 04 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 47. the apocalypse, but fashion 🦝 @ElleArmageddon Punctuation matters. 01:15 AM - 01 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 48. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide your writing before and after copyediting 08:48 PM - 12 Nov 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 49. Prof. Emily Gasser Zucker🌴 @EmmmilyGZ Updating a classic. 11:56 PM - 30 Sep 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 50. Dave Jorgenson 🎄 @davejorgenson This is actually my favorite TikTok 09:16 PM - 23 Sep 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 51. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide petition to start calling copyediting a vibe check 06:45 PM - 17 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 52. Kyle Daly @dalykyle Thinking, as I often do, about the time Yahoo News thought "Zooey Deschanel divorces Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard" meant she had left a man named Death Cab to pursue a relationship with the lead singer of the band Cutie 04:33 PM - 18 Sep 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 53. Tyler Palmateer @Tpalmateer83 I just took a D N A test T U R N S out Im a h u n d r e d PER cent not going to use the % sign as AP style now suggests 05:17 PM - 08 Sep 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 54. Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln Stop talking shit about punctuation em dashes are VERSATILE commas are COMPLEX colons are ICONIC semicolons periods are ESSENTIAL 03:15 PM - 07 Sep 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 55. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide Thinking about how Baby Yoda's name is actually "the Child" but we've all collectively renamed him, and usage is really what matters at the end of the day, right? 06:33 PM - 02 Dec 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 56. Nat Towsen @NatTowsen Quick punctuation lesson: Hyphen (-): connects two words En-dash (–): indicates a range, e.g. 2–8 Em-dash (—): Ahhh, you seek to understand its ways, weary traveler. Nay, behold! This dash provides to you whichever function you most require. You need only listen as it whispers… 06:19 PM - 05 Sep 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 57. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide the signs as punctuation: Aries ! Taurus . Gemini " Cancer , Leo () Virgo ~ Libra — Scorpio ' Sagittarius : Capricorn / Aquarius ? Pisces - 08:11 PM - 26 Sep 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 58. Jonathon Owen @ArrantPedantry Okay, folks. Here's a thing that no one asked for but that I think we all need: the style guide alignment chart. 04:25 PM - 30 Aug 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 59. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide copyediting on Oct. 31 vs. Nov. 1 07:01 PM - 01 Nov 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 60. Alyssa Limperis @alyssalimp when someone pronounces gif ‘jif’ 03:39 AM - 06 Feb 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 61. Ben Rosen @ben_rosen WRITER: The Wizard Of Oz EDITOR: Oz’s Wizard 01:37 AM - 30 Jul 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 62. BuzzFeed Style Guide @styleguide TFW you change "chairman" to "chair," "fireman" to "firefighter," "spokesman" to "spokesperson," etc.: 07:20 PM - 20 Dec 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite