I want to be “witty;” however, it’s 4:25 in the afternoon, and (to be quite honest), my favorite punctuation mark—drumroll, please—is, actually . . . . well? All of them!!! Have any of you read Eats Shoots & Leaves? It’s for the punctuation pundit.
maybe parentheses, i always have some sort of side comment on my own sentences. or commas. it’s probably just on the internet though, if i do overuse them, because in english i do pretty damn well on those grammar/punctuation tests.
I’m a comma abuser. [hangs head in shame] Also, I use a lot of ellipses, like everyone else here seems to. And I’m a big fan of the interrobang; I try to come up with excuses to use it as much as possible.
Edit: After I posted my answer, I looked at it and realized that I’m pretty sure I use semicolons more than anybody else I know.
My english teacher refers to me as the “comma queen”. Once I got into the negative point values (-230 somthing) due mostly to comma issues. I like to put them where I would put a pause, but apparently I think like William Shatner.
I place a comma with every pause for breath, ( I read all my written works out loud to get the cadence right) and if I ever get emphysema, then, I suppose, I, will really, overuse, commas. :-)