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Some Comma Questions - New York Times Blogs
25 May 2012, 8:15 pm
You began a sentence with however. I thought that a sentence couldn’t begin with however — that it either had to be separated by commas or follow a semicolon. Am I just old-fashioned or wrong? “Wrong” is a harsh word, but “old ...
Wasting Detroit Police time and manpower - Examiner
25 May 2012, 11:11 am
The nerve. Cheek, gall; that's what it is. And now, as we have assuaged the desire to over-employ the semicolon as we pen our message this noonday, we leave you with this heartfelt thought. Seat belt check are a waste of time and manpower.
The Comma Sutra — bad grammar advice - Washington Post
22 May 2012, 7:07 pm
You look over at your neighbor, who is artfully braiding them into a semicolon. Then you stand there nervously with your comma waiting for an opening. Finally you nestle it between two rapidly passing clauses and hope that they are the right clauses.
First Nations man seeks hope for cancer patients - StarPhoenix
14 May 2012, 9:18 pm
Less than three weeks later, the tumour was removed along with 8½ inches of his large intestine. "I'm a semicolon now," Okemaysim said with a laugh. "That's been my standing joke now. I'm a linguist. I love the semicolon." It was during the operation that ...
9 questions to test your knowledge - Times News
12 May 2012, 7:59 am
6. Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle... 7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets ...
Barry Wood: Headline tricks of the trade - Rockford Register-Star
11 May 2012, 8:24 pm
This saves a tiny bit of space, and is a signal of sorts that headlines are rarely complete sentences. A headline also uses a semicolon instead of the combination of a comma and a conjunction to set off two parts of a compound sentence. There are times ...
In tech, some bemoan the rise of 'brogrammer' culture - CNN
6 May 2012, 6:57 pm
Forget what you think you know about the benignly geeky computer programmer who lives for the thrill of finding a single misplaced semicolon in thousands of lines of code. And welcome to the world of the "brogrammer." As tech startup culture ...
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