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Old 06-16-2012, 02:07 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy View Post
I've never seen a semi-colon yet that wouldn't be better replaced with a fullstop.
I have two responses to this:

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And just today I was reading John Irving's essay, The King of the Novel, in which he says of Charles Dickens: "He is a master of that device for making short sentences seem long, and long sentences readable - the semi-colon!"
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