Borge - Phonetic Punctuation

But anyway, I'm going to do a routine now. The ones of you who have heard it before me and you are hearing it again. And the ones of you who have not heard it before may enjoy hearing it again next time.

I'm speaking of the phonetic punctuation. I must compliment you on your endurance. However, I have not known this, as I said, before we could have started with it and been home by now. I certainly appreciate your enthusiasm indeed.

I invented phonetic punctuation many years ago. Pongtuation. Pongtuation. And there. It was in 1936 when I first found that people who speak together don't understand each other clearly. But when we read our right we use punctuation marks in order to underline the meaning of our sentences.

but we do not have that support when we speak. So why not integrate punctuation marks by giving them sounds into our speech? Then we can underline what we intend to convey to each other verbally.

What the heck was all that now? That's the principle of a word saying. I could say it. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I've got another word. I've got another word.

Of course. I can't. I can't. I'm sorry. That was right. I'll teach you how to use the system. A period sounds like this, a dash. An exclamation point is a vertical dash with a period underneath, the comma. Quotation are two commas. Or if you happen to be left handed, question mark is a little difficult. And finally,

the colon, the two little dots. You may put them over each other, you may put them over each other, you're going to put them wherever you want to put them. That's it. I'm going to read a paragraph from a book I have here. The same book I wrote from before. My father inherited