Hurray for Semicolons!

ZOMBIE USER 4126 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 4126** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 10:02 am

I almost cried when I saw Mr. Ecker lay down a good old semicolon in a comic bubble. It always heartens me to see astute punctuation--especially in a genre where it is sadly lacking.

Thank you; you made my day.

P.S. Got back from Rome last week--had a blast.

Andrick · Post by **Andrick** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 10:51 am

Ah... Roma, citta eterna! Welcome back, you!

Now what's this noise about the semi-colon? I'd think the tilda is the most overlooked and maligned of all the marks with the tittle being the darling of the english speaking world.

Perhaps we should have a poll on this...

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 11:11 am

Thanks, IcRyu!

I actually pride myself on my ability to use simicolins correctly; they're one of my signature punctuations!

(Readers of my writing will probably notice how heavily peppered with them it is.)

Speaking of my writing, I have the beginnings of a second chapter for the Mars Story (Currently I'm thinking of the title Pale Yellow Sky).

Alfador · Post by **Alfador** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 7:42 pm

In my story (of which I have FINALLY gotten chapter Nine up, blatant plug to GO READ MY STORY!), I use lots of semicolons, but more often double dashes or ellipses. Since character encoding may vary, I prefer double dashes to "em dashes" and triple periods to true ellipsis characters.

I still have to use "ampersand pound number semicolon" for "extra-English" characters, such as the c-with-cedilla(at least I think that's what it's called) that's supposed to be in facade, (yes, I'm too lazy to go and look up the HTML code for that character...again), or the accented e that appears in caf