If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.
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I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.
I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not written by me.
Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar.
Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?
In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.
I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
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