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We are trained from a very young age, as a rule, to see the comma. The semicolon, not so much. Semicolons are unusual: they are not part of story telling; th
by smackeyacky 2y ago
We are trained from a very young age, as a rule, to see the comma. The semicolon, not so much. Semicolons are unusual: they are not part of story telling; they are from a forgotten grammar which is hardly used.
- card_zero 2y agoPooh had wandered into the Hundred Acre Wood, and was standing in front of what had once been Owl's House. It didn't look at all like a house now; it looked like a tree which had been blown down; and as soon as a house looks like that, it is time you tried to find another one. What do you mean, not part of story telling? There are 64 semicolons in The House at Pooh Corner; and by the way, nearly all of them are followed by conjunctions.
- geor9e 2y agoI get the argument, but I can't imagine a double-blind study of children or adults of any age that would find they see a semicolon versus a comma at a different rate. If anything, the reverse argument works; the semicolon is more obvious because it's so unusual.