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Freelance Matters (freelancematters.wordpress.com):
… an email from an editorial list serve in which the discussion of the semicolon was front and center. Oh no! Not again. Not others trying to slay the defenseless semicolon! The emails were responding to the February 18, 2008, report by Sam Roberts inThe New York Times, in which he wrote about the appearance of a semicolon on a billboard, “Semicolon sightings in the city are unusual, period, much less in exhortations drafted by committees of civil servants. In literature and journalism, not to mention in …

Quotidian Me (quotidianme.blogspot.com):
… or expected, anyway you got all the writer intended to parcel out and now you have to move along. But with a semicolon there you get a pleasant little feeling of expectancy; there is more to come; read on; it will get clearer. -- Lewis Thomas Also seethis inspirational storyin the New York Times. Or here. Or here. And the rebuttal: Semicolons are pretentious and overactive. These days one seems to come across them in every other sentence. "These days" is alarmist, since half a century ago the German poet Christian …

Drewbert's Poor Excuse for a Blog (www.circumspectfiesta.com):
… No Comment You... you... elitist! An Engineer's Guide to Cats And for all we know, clicking this link could get you arrested by the FBI. Snicker... Snort... BWA-HAA-HAA-HAAAHAAAAHAAAH! Wooo... *sniffle*Semicolon Appreciation SocietySo, It Looks Like I'll Be Dying Young And Wrinkly. Bitter? Me? Microsoft: Making Life Needlessly Complicated Since 1975 For all we know, you'll infringe on someone's copyright just by clicking this link. …

The Electric Egg Cream » THE ELECTRIC EGG CREAM (electriceggcream.com):
… he was the only murderer he ever encountered who could wield a semicolon just as well as a revolver.” To which, Sam Richards of the NY Times adds, “he’s now serving an even longer sentence.”nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/…Sphere: Related Content Posted by MJT, filed under Big Apple Sauce. Date: May 9, 2008, 3:09 pm | No Comments » …

THAT Blog (www.thatagency.com):
… and gives the innocent, pizza-topping fungi a bad rep. • Unibody—A free font designed to be used solely at 8pt. Good for captions and illustrations. • 10 typographic mistakes that everyone—myself included—makes. Blame MS Word. I do. •The New York Times gets a little too excited over semicolons. …

Douglas Hahn (douglashahn.wordpress.com):
… fantastic article …

Publish or Perish (sowritealready.blogspot.com):
… So, tell me...according to this are you a hipster or not?Grammar lessons...in the most unlikeliest of place. One day I will compile a list of musical place...this will be one of them. For those other science geeks out there. Is this true? I suppose it is. I'm not one for telling. …

Diversionary Daily (www.diversionary.net):
… O tonemeister is blogging about sound Should be an interesting read (weird that commenters are identified using the overly-formal sounding full title Mr). (#) Idea: A new typography term This appeals to my inner typography nerd. (#)Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely LocationBrilliant. (#) The sound of colour It would seem that Gap have way too much money. At least they fund good things with it. (#) Inside Guardian: Placing an ad The Guardian's behind-the-scenes blog explains how an ad ends up in the printed paper. In my …

Perdiendo el tiempo (perdenteltemps.blogspot.com):
… son malas las malas palabras? por Roberto Fontanarrosa en youtube: primera parte y segunda parte. Sebastià Alzamora sobre el tamaño de la literatura catalana. Juan Carlos Moreno sobre el nacionalismo lingüístico. Sobreel uso del punto y coma. Una interesante explicación filológica del origen del verbo inglés "understand". Los Simpsons y sus chistes lingüísticos. ¿Por qué hay que aprender lenguas? Para los que no entienden inglé …

Today's WORD on Journalism (tedsword.blogspot.com):
… describes the semicolon as the yellow traffic light of a ‘New York sentence.’ In response, most New Yorkers accelerate; they don’t pause to contemplate.” —Sam Roberts, reporter, The New York Times, in a story about semicolons in the subway (Click here to see story …

Olivier Yiptong’s blog (www.oliyiptong.com):
… The denizens of the interwebs have got their tubes connected to their rears when it comes to grammar; stool samples are easily collected: ‘rediculous’, ‘there’ instead of ‘their’, ’should of’, ‘could of’ and incorrect use of thesemi-colon …

Adventures with Lindsay (lindsayadventures.blogspot.com):
… It doesn't matter what paper you read, its language or viewpoints. Please put it in the trash can; that's good news for everyone. The clever use of of the semicolon in this ad was noticed by the New York Times, which rana fantastic articlepraising that minute piece of punctuation and the MTA employee who penned it. According to the article: Semicolon sightings in the city are unusual, period, much less in exhortations drafted by committees of civil servants. In literature and …

Daniel Silliman (danielsilliman.blogspot.com):
… (Look: I'm profoundly paranoid! And passive-aggressive.) Wikipedia's (self referential) cultural importance Passive aggressive notes Social impact of technology Single sentence stories A canon maker Fed up on the subwayA subway semicolonCampaign artifacts Buttons for sale Obama's half-eaten waffles Obama bus stop Adapting James Ellroy Rise of Pat Robertson DNA was ignored for 12 years Soldiers' toilet graffiti Afghans giving up opium …

Daniel Silliman (danielsilliman.blogspot.com):
… (Look: I'm profoundly paranoid! And passive-aggressive.) Wikipedia's (self referential) cultural importance Passive aggressive notes Social impact of technology Single sentence stories A canon maker Fed up on the subwayA subway semicolonCampaign artifacts Buttons for sale Obama's half-eaten waffles Obama bus stop Adapting James Ellroy Rise of Pat Robertson DNA was ignored for 12 years Soldiers' toilet graffiti Afghans giving up opium …

Language is the People's: Dispatches from a Grammar Wars foot soldier (www.ourboldhero.com):
… World of words directed me to a Guardian article on the decline of the semicolon — in France! I find it hard to get worked up about this, seeing as the semicolon was making headlines here in Americaas recently as last February. I mean, just last night I was trying to decide what color Semicolon Appreciation Society T-shirt to order. If you scroll down towards the end of the story, however, you'll find that the Guardian has assembled some interesting quotes under the heading …

Stuff Nobody Likes (www.stuffnobodylikes.com):
… use of punctuation and grammar could help elevate and improve any piece of writing. Don’t be so quick to write this off as a mindless rant from a drug-addled Midwesterner; his opinion is becoming more and more widespread. Witness the recent nerdgasmfrom the New York Timesover the semi-colon renaissance. …

Newmark's Door (newmarksdoor.typepad.com):
… Economist Eric Rasmusen has written "Capitalization Rules for Titles". A New York Times writerdiscusses the semicolon. Semicolon sightings in the city are unusual, period, much less in exhortations drafted by committees of civil servants. In literature and journalism, not to mention in advertising, the semicolon has been largely jettisoned as a pretentious …

ppnow published stories Recently Popular (www.ppnow.com):
… When commenting on Punctuation - it helps to get it correct …

FuzzLinks.com (www.fuzzlinks.com):
… Early editions of a New York Times article about the placement of a semicolon by the city transit - itself then had a punctuation error and in possibly the worst place. The correction is at the bottom of the article.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/18semicolon.html?_r=3&oref=slogin” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title …

moderateBaptists.com (moderatebaptists.com):
… It's official:semicolons matter. Check out the correction at the end. …