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Re: punctuation buffage

Posted By: commie_bat, on host 207.35.236.194
Date: Friday, May 14, 2004, at 14:42:12
In Reply To: Re: punctuation buffage posted by LaZorra on Friday, May 14, 2004, at 14:23:29:

> *Just venting frustration about my Beginning Drawing teacher going through my art paper and marking wrong EVERY BLOODY SEMICOLON in it. So maybe I overuse semicolons, but every one in the paper was used correctly. Argh.

Good on ya! Most people carelessly and wastefully use a full colon when a semicolon will do.

Seriously though, the semicolon is sometimes the ideal punctuation to break up a long sentence that isn't quite two separate sentences.

^v^:)^v^
F"If you have surgery for colon cancer, are you left with a semicolon?"B

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Re: punctuation buffage - Sam - Fri, 5/14/2004, 17:38:03
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- Re: punctuation buffage - Mia - Fri, 5/14/2004, 21:09:05

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Message:	> > *Just venting frustration about my Beginning Drawing teacher going through my art paper and marking wrong EVERY BLOODY SEMICOLON in it. So maybe I overuse semicolons, but every one in the paper was used correctly. Argh. > > Good on ya! Most people carelessly and wastefully use a full colon when a semicolon will do. > > Seriously though, the semicolon is sometimes the ideal punctuation to break up a long sentence that isn't quite two separate sentences. > > ^v^:)^v^ > F"If you have surgery for colon cancer, are you left with a semicolon?"B
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