An article in the Smithsonian Magazine brings word of a 7th great extinction, not as terrifying as the 6th, but not on that account negligible; in it, Sara Hashemi reports that the use of semicolon is in sharp decline:
If you don't know Nicholson Baker's essay "The History of Punctuation"—in his collection THE SIZE OF THOUGHTS: ESSAYS AND OTHER LUMBER—it's worth tracking down.
I like the semicolon. It's like a colon with legs. I can identify with that.
B.E.
If you don't know Nicholson Baker's essay "The History of Punctuation"—in his collection THE SIZE OF THOUGHTS: ESSAYS AND OTHER LUMBER—it's worth tracking down.
Ending a sentence well is difficult; but semi-colons help me put it off.