“What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?”
Lynne Truss
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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