Just finished Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, which was quite interesting and entertaining. The book contains intriguing discussions about the nature of language and grammar. Most diverting.
Cosmology is next on the docket:
We have mostly different taste in reading material. But I DO love most writings on language -- although I think there might not be enough action for me in an entire book on the semi-colon.
ReplyDeleteYou'd be surprised at the heated arguments and barbs traded over the semicolon over the years. I sure was. Then there was the letter from Twain to his publisher ordering the proofreader be taken out and shot and not given a chance to pray beforehand...
DeleteNope. I wouldn't be surprised. I was in publishing and worked as an editor; I was involved in some of those arguments.
DeleteThe exchanges among grammarians over its usage, and even existence, were even fiercer. Who was it who said "The battles are so fierce because the stakes are so small?"
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Someday, I will read the history of the footnote - there is likely a whole library of these classics.
ReplyDeleteThe semicolon is truly underappreciated.
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