In defense of punctuation, a texter’s lament
by Murr Brewster
Feb 06, 2023
3 minutes
I have always been sensitive to punctuation. It sets the pace for the prose and tells it when to gallop or stop or just pull up slightly and peer over the fence. And I have my preferences. I use fewer commas than my English teachers would have liked because sometimes I want to charge ahead.
And sometimes I use comma splices, where a semicolon is usually called for, because I want
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