When it comes to inspiring controversies this week,Semi-dokyumento: Tokkun Meiki Dukuri Donald Trump Jr. is the gift that keeps on giving. First there were the emails stating that junior would "love" to meet with a Russian government lawyer about incriminating Hillary Clinton info. Then there was the hidden nugget that, wow, those emails contain truly the worst email signature ever.
Now there is a new Donald Trump Jr. scandal that's got the internet shooketh: How exactly the hell are we supposed to punctuate this man's name?!
SEE ALSO: Court settles debate that’s divided grammar nerds for decadesIt all started when The New Yorkerpublished an article, "Donald Trump, Jr.,'s Love for Russian Dirt." Seems like a pretty typical headline.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Except, wait just one damn second. What's this?!
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable That's four punctuation marks in between four characters, which is, aesthetically speaking, excessive AF.
It's the grammar equivalent of this GIF:
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable What was that punctuation conversation like:
Period: "Brb, I gotta go help out the younger Donald Trump."
Apostrophe: "Oh fun, can I come too?"
The Comma Twins: "Ain't no way in hell y'all are leaving us out of this punctuation intervention."
Period: "FINE, WE'LL JUST DO THIS THING TOGETHER THEN!"
Or, in the words of Michael Colton, ex-Washington Postjournalist and writer for the upcoming film A Futile and Stupid Gesture, this is bullsh*t.
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And the internet agreed:
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The New Yorker, though, is sticking to its guns. The head of The New Yorker'scopy department, Andrew Boynton,posted a story on Wednesday, "The Correct Punctuation of Donald Trump, Jr.,'s Name," that outlines exactly why the publication unleashed their punctuation army.
"The reasoning for the punctuation of “Jr.,’s” is pretty straightforward. It’s a collision of conventions."
Let's just take another look at it, real quick:
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Oh, and in case you were wondering, yes, the article was a direct clap back at Michael Colton's initial tweet, as evidenced by the fact The New Yorkerliterally embedded Colton's tweet at the top of the article. (Writer's note: Yassss, New Yorker. A+ trolling!)
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable And, taking everything in stride, The New Yorkeralso noted that the decision is likely to be as controversial as the publication's use of diaeresis (you know, those two dots that appear above the second vowel in words like “naïve”) and for its use of double consonants.
"This styling doesn’t come up very often in the magazine, and its occurrence in a headline of sorts has brought it a weird kind of notoriety. Now it can comfortably stand alongside the diaeresis and 'focussing,'" writes Boynton
At the end of the day, punctuation debate aside, the meaning is the same: The President of the United States' son said he would love a meeting with a Russian government lawyer to talk HRC dirt.
And while everyone is sorting out what that means, make sure you take a second and smell the commas. After all: hell hath no fury like a grammar nerd scorned.
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