John McIntyre, who heads The Sun's copy desk and writes the You Don't Say blog, says we shouldn't get too excited about proposed punctuation such as the tentative hyphen, the elevated ellipsis or the fini. He reminds us that other recent reforms have gone nowhere. The interrobang, a question mark/exclamation point combo, was left wondering: why me?! The snark, a reverse question mark noting satire, was a huge success, though it does not show up on my laptop's keyboard.

He says we already have plenty of punctuation marks and we should figure out to use them correctly, instead of gumming up everything with new options. I don't doubt his sincerity, though I wonder whether he is subconsciously voicing opposition from the International Union of Copy Editors and Taste Arbiters, which would conveniently avoid any costly punctuation-retraining programs.

I am undeterred, and my Campaign to Adopt the Fini is not finished. How's them apples?!