Friday, January 18, 2008

Punctuation Nomination


Given the architecture and visual plumage of the colon [:], why is the semicolon [;] so named?


Shouldn't the period [.] be the true semicolon [;], since it is half as many dots as the colon [:]?

Ergo, I hereby nominate the nomenclature of the comma [,] as the paraquasidemicolon.

(The disturbing thing is that I thought of this in my sleep, or semidemiquasisleep, last night.)

4 comments:

Glamourpuss said...

oh yeah, it just trips off the tongue that one...

Puss

Christy said...

New favorite word: ; . semidemiquasisleep

Katherine said...

This post is a migraine

with touches of Woody Allen.

August

Patti said...

I think you've outdone yourself with this one, Pawlie.

Methinks you need a rest.

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