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[delga]

Oh, people, come on. Let us celebrate the beauty that is the semi-colon. Seriously. learn how to use it. Love it. Embrace it into your world.

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See? Isn't that a thing of beauty? Stop using it as a fucking apostrophe and stop replacing it with commas. Commas are like mice; they breed extraordinarily quickly.

Comments

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

See, when I took English in college, we were actually taught that this is the new way. I think it's still considered flexible because there's enough people out there still doing it the old way that either are acceptable. Um. If THAT makes sense. ;-)

woogly. ahahaha!

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that makes sense. It's like the Oxford comma (I think it's known as the Harvard comma in the US?) I have to teach myself to use it properly but I still prefer not to. I was taught English grammar by an old-school grammarian so the idea of sticking a separator next to a conjunction does my head in.

It's my new favourite word, hee.