Bah, semicolons are for ending C expressions, not english ;P

Joel

On 9/15/05, Andy Streich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 15 September 2005 05:55 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> My tenth grade english teacher taught it like this:
>
> "If you can't replace the semicolon with a period and make two coherent
> and complete sentences, then it doesn't belong."
>
> Best grammar advice I ever received.
>

It can also be used to separate elements in a list which themselves contain
commas yet are not complete sentences.

Andy


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