Editor's note: The following is a blatant advertisement for a company outside of Weekly Reader. Due to punctuation cooincidences, I could not resist.
Just a couple hours after Deb posted her blog entry about National Punctuation Day earlier today, we received an email from Chrisel at MSR Communications. Chrisel wanted YOU to know about Spinvox, a "sophisticated mobile service that converts voice messages into text messages that may be delivered via email, SMS, and blogs. The SpinVox service even punctuates better than people! (Well, most people.)"
With the SpinVox Punctuation Playlist on iTunes, guys, gals, and grammarians alike can celebrate the beauty of English Grammar. So take a seat, sit back and listen to our favorite songs with punctuation on your mind, and you may hear mondegreens (the mishearing or misinterpretation of a lyric in a song) like:
- Comma Chameleon
(aka Karma Chameleon by Culture Club)
- Semi-Colon Life
(aka Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind)
- Hyphen Everywhere
(aka I’ve Been Everywhere by Johnny Cash)
- Run-On with the Devil
(aka Running with the Devil by Van Halen)
- Apostrophe in Effect
(aka Posse in Effect by Beastie Boys)
- Enter Ampersand
(aka Enter Sandman by Metallica)
- Monster Dash
(aka Monster Mash by Bobby Boris Pickett)
- Bracket Off
(aka Break It Off by Rihanna)
- London Colon
(aka London Calling by The Clash)
- Our Ellipsis are Sealed
(aka Our Lips are Sealed by The Go-Gos)
Here is the actual playlist of the real songs parodied above. After you're done looking at this (and possibly downloading some great classic hits), check out Spinvox!
