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42. Ah, the more I learn about other languages, the more I'm glad I'm a croat and we follow the write as you speak rule. Mostly.

Since everyone is doing it...

Commas, commas, beautiful little things!
Oh, simple, simple, they've got a sweet zing!
Momma told me to them to always care.
"Must be careful or the paper will tear!"
And so what do I do with all of them?
So go get the garbage bin for this gem.

~~~~~~~~~~_
~~~~~~~~~/
~~~~~~~~/
-___________/
-|,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,|
-|```````````````|
-|,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,|
-|```````````````|
-\_________/
~(o)~~~~(o)
Behold! My attempt to create a trashcan!

43. Seeing an epic epitaph on a mass grave of commas... It feels you with determination.

39. Here's some dialogue from these different things:
Period: I am awesome! Pi would never be the same without ME! And don't forget that I end all your sentences!
Exclamation Point: You just ended those three sentences with ME. We're both awesome. High five.
Period: *High fives exclamation point, even though he has no hands, arms, or fingers.*
Pi: Period, you make me who I am. Of course, without you, I would be a HUGE number! You make me small. Well, whatever. I'm awesome too.
Comma: *Sad face*

Edit: Sorry for assuming that the period is male. :P

38. I also think that period is a feminine domain (edit: wow that turned out kinda ambiguous 0_o)

And now let's back to the topic of poor, hard-working bees... Look how we have to post twice as many numbers. Show us some fair play, maybe you'll get some sweetness back

39. really? well, I'm with the 27% then

These genders are funny things, they change a lot depending on the language, I can see that when I compared German to Portuguese...

x

Number: Feminine x Masculine
Moon: Masculine x Feminine
Sun: Feminine x Masculine
Tree: Masculine x Feminine
Water: Neuter x Feminine
Car: Neuter x Masculine
...

38. Ok, here's some fair play We need to prepare our kindness for the upcoming summer!

39. On Croatian, the period is masculine. But the literal translation of period would be cut (small cut, paper cut), so I guess it makes sense.

40. Yeah, I didn't say it clear before - in PL we also have feminine periods, not that only I think that way. And our period means just a dot or a point. Graphical part was for some reason more important than its function.

38. Can we go on to a different subject? I keep interpreting "feminine periods" and "masculine periods" wrong... Not like I'm dirty minded, just that I'm a girl.

39. Shouldn't dots be feminine and commas be masculine for obvious reasons? I mean...

Dot .
Dot with a "tail" ,

See this? This is the product of a dirty mind! Prized and rare!

40. Ahh that's dirty indeed. You should talk to a woshua and order a mind cleaning service.

39. Yeah, you really need a better mind. Of course, 7th graders.

40. I never really understood why nouns have genders, I mean, we compare stuff to... people... like, because of that, my computer is a guy... but he's not even alive ;-;

One thing that kinda bothers me is that "letter" in Portuguese is feminine, but if I say like "an A", or "an R", "a J"... we use MASCULINE articles, but if I say "a letter", we use FEMININE articles... like... it's weird!

36. What do you have against summer? Do you live in somewhere tropical?

37. 7th graders have relatively clean minds compared to 8th graders. Yeesh. If you knew what they were doing at my school, you'd have one more reason to gauge your eyes out.