http://brunerbiz.com/grammar/why-i-hate-the-semicolon/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:47:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://brunerbiz.com/grammar/why-i-hate-the-semicolon/comment-page-1/#comment-1167 Jody Bruner Thu, 05 May 2011 11:29:02 +0000 http://brunerbiz.com/?p=1036#comment-1167 Thanks for your passionate defense of the semicolon. Still, I'd rather have my 'ands' and 'buts.' Thanks for your passionate defense of the semicolon. Still, I’d rather have my ‘ands’ and ‘buts.’

]]> http://brunerbiz.com/grammar/why-i-hate-the-semicolon/comment-page-1/#comment-1166 Skattebol Thu, 05 May 2011 07:28:18 +0000 http://brunerbiz.com/?p=1036#comment-1166 The semi-colon is a beautiful punctuation mark. Think of all those ghastly 'buts' and 'ands' that can be removed because it exists. It enables loose connections of thoughts, ideas, emotions and concepts that are connected and simultaneously not connected. It allows elaboration of any one concept when more than one is being presented. That it has a right or wrong place to be used outside of simple grammatical sense, or that it is a symbol of intellectual snobbery is to judge it, and lives only in the mind of the reader. Besides, how much of the worth of the associated thoughts, ideas, emotions and concepts are lost in worrying about how they are semantically joined? The semi-colon is a beautiful punctuation mark. Think of all those ghastly ‘buts’ and ‘ands’ that can be removed because it exists. It enables loose connections of thoughts, ideas, emotions and concepts that are connected and simultaneously not connected. It allows elaboration of any one concept when more than one is being presented. That it has a right or wrong place to be used outside of simple grammatical sense, or that it is a symbol of intellectual snobbery is to judge it, and lives only in the mind of the reader. Besides, how much of the worth of the associated thoughts, ideas, emotions and concepts are lost in worrying about how they are semantically joined?

]]> http://brunerbiz.com/grammar/why-i-hate-the-semicolon/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Why the semicolon is the new period Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:14:07 +0000 http://brunerbiz.com/?p=1036#comment-191 [...] Why I Hate the Semicolon [...] [...] Why I Hate the Semicolon [...]

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