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.)
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New favorite word: ; . semidemiquasisleep
This post is a migraine
with touches of Woody Allen.
August
I think you've outdone yourself with this one, Pawlie.
Methinks you need a rest.
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