> > > Your current poll on punctuation marks doesn't
> > > include all the punctuation marks; it leaves
> > > out a lot I like, such as the ampersand.
> >
> > The ampersand is technically a stylized version of "et", which I think is Latin. And also it would be a huge hassle to include every single punctuation mark in a poll like that.
>
> I go the opposite way here, I don't know why the * was included as a punctuation mark -- I've never witnessed a star strengthen an otherwise weak sentence. But I hesitate to say this, for it seems that the * is a crowd (albeit a different and quantitatively lesser crowd than the ! hooligans) favorite. Which I guess will bring me to a question: Did y'all choose your favorites based on the mark's grammatical purpose, it's visual pleasure, or by some seemingly individual criteria? I chose " because they remind me of two white bunny eyes in a snow-storm.
> Euge'"'ne

I chose comma. I really didn't have to think about it, whenever I review and "alpha-read" my writing, one of the things I have to do is weed out superfluous commas.
-sam","hael