February 19, 2004

The wrong relationship  

languagehat links to this great story about the semicolon that let hundreds more couples get married in San Francisco. Amazingly, the article itself doesn't contain a single semicolon (except for the quoted one, which was improperly used anyway). This reminded me of the copy desk at my college newspaper. The copy editors had standing orders to edit away all semicolons under the logic that they were so difficult to use that anybody using one had to be in error. As the opinion editor, I fought them endlessly; at the time, semicolons seemed vitally important for coherent expression. But these days, I hardly ever use them...

MORE: Venkat demands some usage guidance; I guess I have to capitulate? Semicolons separate clauses with similar meaning or weight; what comes before the semicolon should approximate what comes after it. But the precise relationship between the two isn't specified; the second clause can function to elaborate, comment, or simply restate the first.

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