Re: CHAT: Dashes

En réponse à Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>:

>
> I also like using dashes.  Although i did have one teacher who tried to
> dissuade me from using them, so since then i try to use more variety in
> my punctuation, sometimes even using semicolons.  I have a friend who's
> an English major who (over)uses semicolons all over the place the way
> we
> use dashes.
>
I HATE semicolons!!!! I hate them so much that I have banned them from my style.
You will never see any semicolon in my works. I have perfectly enough of the
full stop and the comma, thank you very much. I also dislike to read a text full
of semi-colons. Usually, full stops would have been just fine, and semi-colons
artificially lengthen sentences to no end. In fact, I've never quite understood
the role of the semi-colon. I've never seen any text where it couldn't be
replaced by a full stop or by a comma with advantage of a better readability...

The only language where semicolons are used nicely is Greek. But of course, in
Greek it's used as a question mark :) .

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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