http://www.metafilter.com/tags/semicolon Posts tagged with 'semicolon' at MetaFilter. Thu, 30 May 2013 05:10:30 -0800 Thu, 30 May 2013 05:10:30 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/128532/We%2Duse%2Dsemicolons%2Devery%2Dday <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M94ii6MVilw">;</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.128532 Thu, 30 May 2013 05:10:30 -0800 grammar humour lonelyisland musicvideo semicolon slty thelonelyisland video Fizz http://www.metafilter.com/120764/Interrobang <a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/234470/13-little-known-punctuation-marks-we-should-be-using">13 obscure punctuation marks that we should be using...</a> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.120764 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:13:54 -0800 grammar interrobang percontation punctuation semicolon theweek Renoroc http://www.metafilter.com/117892/Dispatch%2Dfrom%2DSan%2DSerriffe <em>The semicolon sat there in my literary utensil drawer like a cherry pitter, theoretically functional, but fussy and unloved and probably destined for the yard-sale table.</em> <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/semicolons-a-love-story/?src=rechp">Semicolons: A Love Story <small>[NYT]</small></a> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.117892 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:06:30 -0800 bendolnick nyt punctuation semicolon vonnegut obscurator http://www.metafilter.com/72709/A%2Ddots%2Das%2Dgood%2Das%2Da%2Dwink <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2194087">Who killed the semicolon?</a> <a href="http://weekendstubble.blogspot.com/">Paul Collins</a> fingers a 19th-century culprit; Trevor Butterworth finds an <a href="http://www.trevorbutterworth.com/pause_celebre.htm">American anitipathy</a> to this troublesome punctuation mark. <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/69183/Seminewsworthy">[previously]</a> <a href="http://philobiblos.blogspot.com/2008/06/links-reviews_22.html">[via]</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72709 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:16:39 -0800 grammar punctuation semicolon writing Horace Rumpole http://www.metafilter.com/69183/Seminewsworthy <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/18semicolon.html">Slow news day:</a> One properly used semicolon inspires paroxysms of joy in the <em>NYT</em>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69183 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:19:00 -0800 muchadoaboutnothing newyorktimes nyt nytimes punctuation samroberts semicolon subway GrammarMoses