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A Serendipitous Semi-Colon Article

From Slate’s Has modern life killed the semicolon?: “The 1737 guide Bibliotheca Technologica recognizes ‘The comma (,) which stops the voice while you tell [count] one. The Semicolon (;) pauseth while you tell two. The Colon (:) while you tell three; and then period, or full stop (.) while you tell four.’ Lacking standards for [...]

Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location

From the NY Times’ Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location: “In terms of punctuation, semicolons signal something New Yorkers rarely do. Frank McCourt…describes the semicolon as the yellow traffic light of a ‘New York sentence.’ In response, most New Yorkers accelerate; they don’t pause to contemplate.”

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