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Slate Magazine has a fun read: Has Modern Life Killed the Semicolon? An excerpt: From the 1850s onward, it’s virtually impossible to find anyone claiming a prevalence of semicolons in writing. We now lived, complained a critic in 1854, in … Continue reading →

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Just now from my office mate: “The sentence [in his students’ usability report] in which they explain that their instructions had a lot of grammar errors has a spelling error and is a run-on.”

Working Blue is the title of Jenny Edbauer Rice’s blog, and the coincidence of this post title her blog title are simply that, coincidence. Though perhaps not — perhaps this title would not have popped into my head as appropriate … Continue reading →

I had been wanting to change my theme on this blog for a while. I liked the last theme a lot, but I realized it was hard to read, especially on a lot of PC’s (I could read it fine … Continue reading →