Re: OT: English usage. Was: Re: No Starch Press releases _The Debian System_ by Martin Krafft
Bah, semicolons are for ending C expressions, not english ;P
Joel
On 9/15/05, Andy Streich <andy@rushyglen.com> wrote:
On Thursday 15 September 2005 05:55 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> My tenth grade english teacher taught it like this:
>
> "If you can't replace the semicolon with a period and make two coherent
> and complete sentences, then it doesn't belong."
>
> Best grammar advice I ever received.
>
It can also be used to separate elements in a list which themselves contain
commas yet are not complete sentences.
Andy
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