Words: April 2008 Archives
I like them - they are a three-quarter beat to the half and full beats of commas and full stops. Prose has its own musicality, and the more notation the better. WILL SELF
Talk has been raging of late about a much neglected friend of ours: the semicolon. Should it, as some believe, remain a secret weapon in a writer’s armoury, or should it, as others have argued, be removed from our keyboards? Hmmmm...
Would we be able to weave the same patterns in our lucid prose, or drum the same rhythms in our exquisitely crafted emails (yeah right), without it? Or do we sound like pretentious idiots even talking about it? This thorough examination of our humble little friend might help you decide: THE END OF THE LINE.
