On semicolons.

[randomness]

From the Financial Times, September 17, 2005, archived at the author's website:

Pause Celebre

Carlyle's sumptuous prose was rich with them; Evelyn Waugh's fluid reveries depended on them.
The semicolon can be as subtle as a breath - so why do Americans hate it so much?

By Trevor Butterworth

http://www.trevorbutterworth.com/pause_celebre.htm

Full disclosure: I like semicolons and use them a bit more than I ought to, perhaps.

Comments

[qbaz.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks for finding this, Leon. I adore semicolons; that said, my affection for them, like yours, is tinged with guilt and worry that perhaps I like them too much. I wonder why.