nuanced pauses are so un-American

[littleclaypig]

This just in from the New York Times: The semicolon has become a pretentious anachronism used only by oddball MTA workers, '70s-era serial killers, and long-winded dorks like myself. The comma's next, people! We're gonna just string everything together with a whole bunch of ands!

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[servant_of_clio]

They'll take my semicolons from my cold, dead hands.
Unfortunately, I just got up, and couldn't work out a clever way to put a semicolon in this comment.

[_contingent_]

I once added a semicolon to something my boss wrote while reviewing it. "Is that what those are for?" was the response.