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20 Aug 2008 10:33 am
Kinsley On Semi-Colons
For the record:
"I use semicolons and I never really enforced a hard-and-fast rule,"
Kinsley responded recently by e-mail ...
"But if abuse is going to be common," he continued, "it's simpler and
safer to have a flat-out rule. It's like drug regulation. Drugs are
banned sometimes because a minority of users will have negative side
effects, or because taking them correctly is complicated, although many
people could get it right and would find them helpful. Actually, I'm
opposed to that kind of thinking re drugs, but I am OK with it
regarding punctuation. Punctuation can't save your life."
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