What can be more delicious than this? The most popular emailed (I prefer this form instead of the hyphenated e-mailed) article over at the New York Times website (I prefer this, rather than the almost Victorian construction Web site) is about (ta-da):
The Semicolon
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As you can see if you click on the word semicolon above, a sign on a New York City subway uses the lovely semicolon; it uses it correctly. Beautiful.
The only thing more delicious would be an erotic, semantic, linguistic, and cosmic embrace of the serial comma by The New York Times. (But, alas, The New York Times wouldn't do that; it would be too much like The New Yorker.)
(All hail to Neil Neches of New York City Transit! [pictured above, with his all-but invisible semicolon on the subway placard in the background])
5 comments:
wow - looks like new york has news right up your alley!
Someone needs to start a Semicolon Mafia.
You in?
(Ah! New layout?)
Hurrah for the good punctuation; about time.
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I love your blog too; it makes me think; often an arduous task; catch you later;
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