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TootsNYC (or, The Great Queen Copyeditor)
Thursday, August 14, 2008
The Videographic Semicolon
I just googled "lots of semicolons"--don't ask me why; I think I'm on a kick.
And found this, which made me chuckle.
Michael Fontenot,
a songwriter and videographer, apparently finds semicolons, and the use thereof, amusing.
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I'm a copyeditor by trade, a wife and mom by practice, and a reader by obsession. I love to think about how words work, and why.
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