For the grammarians out there (yes, you Jenn), there was an amusing column on the precarious state of the semicolon in last week's Boston Globe. I'm a fan of the semicolon; perhaps that's because I'm a woman.
"Ben McIntyre, writing in the Times of London a couple of months later, added to the collection of semicolon snubbers: Kurt Vonnegut called the marks 'transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing.' Hemingway and Chandler and Stephen King, said McIntyre, 'wouldn't be seen dead in a ditch with a semi-colon (though Truman Capote might). Real men, goes the unwritten rule of American punctuation, don't use semi-colons.'"
More here.
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