Be honest with me: how serious are you about the serial comma? Do you wade into discussions on language forums and social media brandishing citations from your favourite authorities? Do you dismiss dissenting authorities as heretics? Are there style and usage guides on your bookshelf with sticky notes and bookmarks
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Scripturient: Writers and reading
This post is about, and for writers, for reporters and editors, for book authors and editors, magazine editors, feature writers, layout artists, copy editors and anyone who either fancies themselves one of these, or has the curious desire to become one (curious because, at least for freelancers, it often involves
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: How NOT to use a semicolon: a short musical interludeum
Great stuff! Alltop finds the word “colon” highly irregular and funny. HT to tejassssssssss’s tumblr for this one, originally on .
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