American writers distrust the semicolon; the Brits, on the other hand, defend the puncuation mark for the "restful and easy" pauses it brings to prose. I'm in the pro-semicolon camp myself; I'm an Anglophile, after all. Anyway, my besetting sin is the dash--one of my professors in college told me my use of the dash was too extravagent despite the fact that he was generally in favor of the extravagent use of dashes--so what do I know?
Via A&L Daily.
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