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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 | |
5c122e7 | "No one understands us seventh-sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to "get a life" by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves." | grammar grammar-nazi lynne-truss seventh-sense | Lynne Truss |