Ode to the semi-colon
Sep. 21st, 2003 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321Oh semi-colon, you most boring of punctuation marks! You're neither fish nor fowl: half full stop, half comma. You are necessary but oh, so boringly dutiful. I cannot abide the types of sentences that need you but now and again even I must have recourse to your pedestrian self. Not for you the definite forcefulness of a full stop (or 'period', I guess, as the Americans would have it). The full stop is the Norrington of punctuation marks! And not for you the graceful sweetness of the comma, all curvaceous elegance. Nor for you the open-ness of the colon, the breathlessness of the double-hyphen, the heartstop of the exclamation mark, the dreaminess of the ellipsis, nor even the embrace of the parentheses.
You're like a pair of false teeth: useful but with no bite.
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Date: 2003-09-21 01:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-22 08:31 am (UTC)I might have known that t'fandom harbours strong emotions on just about everything. Incl. semi-colons.
*hearts you*
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Date: 2003-09-21 01:32 pm (UTC)If I abuse them enough; do you think; they'll go away;?
This; reads interestingly; doesn't it?;
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Date: 2003-09-22 08:34 am (UTC)If; there;s one;thing that;s worse; than; a; semi;colon; it;s; a; semi;colon; misused; and; ab;u;s;e;d;;
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Date: 2003-09-22 12:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-22 01:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-21 01:43 pm (UTC)it's the big scrolling semi-colon that undid me.
HAHAHAHA.
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Date: 2003-09-22 08:36 am (UTC)~
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Date: 2003-09-21 01:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-22 08:37 am (UTC)@-@
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Date: 2003-09-21 02:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-21 02:51 pm (UTC)need a diaper.
ahahahaaha
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Date: 2003-09-22 08:39 am (UTC)Eek, I have been semi-colonexclaimed!
T'reaction stunneth me somewhat. There is, it seemeth, nothing that will not excite this fandom beyond reasonable levels.
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Date: 2003-09-22 08:38 am (UTC)P.S. I lied. I cannot roll my tongue. It's all that Darwin man's fault.
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Date: 2003-09-22 12:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-22 01:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-22 01:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-21 02:24 pm (UTC)Bwhahahahahahahaahahaha!
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Date: 2003-09-22 08:39 am (UTC);/<ü>
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Date: 2003-09-22 09:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-21 02:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-22 08:40 am (UTC)*giggals*
*sniffs indignantly*
Date: 2003-09-21 06:41 pm (UTC)Re: *sniffs indignantly*
Date: 2003-09-22 08:41 am (UTC)O; you; must; write; your; own; ode;;;
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Date: 2003-09-23 11:55 am (UTC)LOVE THE SEMICOLON!!!
You and your run-on commas...*grumbles*
I need to teach you Shakespearean punctuation movement-text so that you can get in touch with your inner semicolon. It's in there. I know it.
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Date: 2003-09-23 02:29 pm (UTC)You semi-colon lovers! *rolls eyes*
And heh, the rambling sentences! I'm telling you: I have gone off them! Hence my love for the full stop: Norringtonesque, forthright and manli.
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