Column – May this semicolon fad fade quickly; it’s long overdue
September 27, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Alexandria Echo Press
Someone ought to declare open hunting season on semicolons, or at least on those who use them so incorrectly.
There is an alarming semicolon trend, contagious as the flu. It’s a shame they don’t have a shot for semicolonitis.
Some writers are using them, willy-nilly, as gussied-up periods or fancy-dancy commas. Continue Reading
You seem to know more about grammar; stay away from political columns. LOL
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Perhaps, he should try weather forecasting. He is up on “Which way the wind is blowing”. Recent columns have mentioned how he has done whatever it takes to survive. Cleaned toilets, picked crops and even begged. Things that “no one else will do” in todays time. Another column pointed out that if one knows how to cook from scratch, one will never go hungry. I suggest he mentor the victim class in some cooking classes vs lobbying for more food programs that prolong the misery. While he’s at it, he could write about how there is honor in menial work vs his justifing the (ileagal) importing of labor to do the “work no one else” will do. His own words mention how that kind of work made him what he is and that it is not demeaning labor.
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Does anyone in Alex remember Mrs. Kellogg? Perhaps another generation should have had her for their English teacher. She taught me a few things; it’s too bad I didn’t apply them then.
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