Talkin’ ‘Bout your punctuation
To Fox Studios in Sydney, and Nine’s annual Upfronts bash.
Micallef: The inverted commas are safe
And for Dr Mumbo the highlight of the brisk presentation (apart from the very fact that it was indeed a brisk 57 minutes this year) came from comedian Shaun Micallef, who had plenty to say about the revival of battle-of-the-demographics panel show Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation which previously lived on Ten.
Micallef told the audience: “When the chap from Nine came to me about being the host of Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation, I said ‘You do know it’s been on before, don’t you?’ And they said ‘Yes, sure we do, but the finest generation that ever lived back then, is not necessarily the finest generation now.'”
Shouldn’t very very have a comma in-between? If you’re being pedantic about punctuation.
Shouldn’t the inverted comma before “Bout” be an apostrophe, to indicate the omission of the “a”?
Yes, yes it should. This is an unfortunate default in most software, and you see it everywhere. Well spotted here, it sh*ts me to tears.
Yes, the apostrophe on the word bout is backwards. It’s been driving me crazy since the show started!