punctuators

There seem to be two trends in English: some people are over-punctuators (as in (2) above) and some are under-punctuators, as in the following:

On commas DC 2008

There seem to be two trends in English: some people are over-punctuators (as in (2) above) and some are under-punctuators, as in the following:

Archive 2008-01-01 DC 2008

That is, a substantival clause out of its place is generally allowed the comma that all but the straitest sect of punctuators would refuse it in its place.

The Colon. 1908

That is, not "kissed the wild waves," as ingenious punctuators pretend, but, parenthetically, "kissed one another, -- the wild waves being silent the while."

Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888

The adults were also asked which mistake most annoyed good punctuators.

The Times of India 2008

(vowel signs and accents), it is true, frequently requires correction, for the punctuators did not always lightly understand the often difficult text; at times also words are not properly divided.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

_qatter jaqtirun_, 1Samuel ii. 16; the transcribers and punctuators under the influence of the Pentateuch preferred the hiphil.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

But this translation is desperate, and certainly not that followed by the punctuators, for the Jewish tradition (Septuagint, Aquila,

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881