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To: bagster

And the underuse and ignorance of the semicolon.


698 posted on 04/11/2018 3:55:12 PM PDT by EarlyBird (There's a whole lot of winning going on around here!)
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To: EarlyBird; bagster

...underuse and ignorance of the semicolon.
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In my opinion, semicolon should be used very sparingly.

Oh: and I HATE the Oxford comma and have a penchant for omitting the *and* in a list of three. Just 2 commas will often do.

WORD does not agree.


990 posted on 04/11/2018 7:18:48 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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