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3e18f6d | I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us. | english-language french time | Christopher Hitchens | |
6ca4234 | What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist? | english-language grammar humor lynne-truss punctuation sentence-structure | Lynne Truss |