Purple Lady

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What kind of tree is your tree?

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:16:51 +0200

According to legend, the great novelist Vladimir Nabokov once met a Cornell University who asked...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-wcB4RPasE&NR=1&feature=e...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:02:44 +0200

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-wcB4RPasE&NR=1&feature=endscreen

Nabokov discusses “Lolita”

Weird writing habits of great male authors

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:44:30 +0200

Weird writing habits of great male authors: Famous male writers and their strange writing methods

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"Poetical Justice"

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:22:00 +0200

“Because you took advantage of a sinner because you took advantage because you took because...

thefunniestpost: Hysterical!

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:49:36 +0200

thefunniestpost:

Hysterical!

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Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:12:08 +0200

Write Like an Academic: Comma Sutra Pt. 1: Comma Myths!

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:12:37 +0200

Write Like an Academic: Comma Sutra Pt. 1: Comma Myths!: Among all punctuation marks, commas are...

Rock, Paper, Scissors (The Lizard Spock Expansion)

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:50:55 +0200

insert-tumbl-name-here: It’s very simple. Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes...

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Justice for the semicolon! Aldus Manutius (1449-1515) Inventor...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:46:00 +0200

Justice for the semicolon!

Aldus Manutius (1449-1515) Inventor of the semicolon, Italic Typeface and the father of modern punctuation.

Use a semicolon [ ; ]

to help sort out a monster list:
There were citizens from Bangor, Maine; Hartford, Connecticut; Boston, Massachusetts; and Newport, Rhode Island.
OR
We had four professors on our committee: Peter Wursthorn, Professor of Mathematics; Ronald Pepin, Professor of English; Cynthia Greenblatt, Professor of Education; and Nada Light, Professor of Nursing.

to separate closely related independent clauses:
My grandmother seldom goes to bed this early; she’s afraid she’ll miss out on something.

The semicolon allows the writer to imply a relationship between nicely balanced ideas without actually stating that relationship. (Instead of saying because my grandmother is afraid she’ll miss out on something, we have implied the because. Thus the reader is involved in the development of an idea—a clever, subliminal way of engaging the reader’s attention.)

It is rare, but certainly possible, that you will want a semicolon to separate two independent clauses even when those two independent clauses are connected by a coordinating conjunction. This is especially true when the independent clauses are complex or lengthy and when there are commas within those independent clauses. You might consider breaking those two independent clauses into separate sentences when this happens.

I have grown fond of semicolons in recent years… . It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you didn’t get all the meaning you wanted or expected, anyway you got all the writer intended to parcel out and now you have to move along. But with a semicolon there you get a pleasant little feeling of expectancy; there is more to come; read on; it will get clearer.

^__ Lewis Thomas

"I like big books and I cannot lie."

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:51:00 +0100

““I like big books and I cannot lie.”” - True story :)

Nine Letter Words (Rubik’s Cube Revisited) For the...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:19:15 +0100

Nine Letter Words (Rubik’s Cube Revisited)

For the deconstructionist word nerd with something to prove to the math kids.

"I would prefer not to."

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:17:15 +0100

My fav phrase that works for every occasion. (:

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