I'm not entirely sure why this tickles me so much.

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I'm not entirely sure why this tickles me so much. Maybe its the caffeine or the lack of sleep. I can only assume the feeling I get when I look at this is the same as the feeling some people get when they're looking at sheet music.

Originally shared by Filippo Salustri

Here's someone with way too much time on their hands.
https://medium.com/@neuroecology/punctuation-in-novels-8f316d542ec4

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Dave Maez said…
This is neat to me too.  Though I wonder about the author's methods.  I assume they used ebooks and just filtered for punctuation.  But did they discern hypens from em-dashes, or periods from ellipses?  ... and so I checked their code, and no they're not distinguishing these.  Oh well.
February 16, 2016 at 9:31 AM
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