If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
Kurt Vonnegut
No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly.
Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/04/france.britishidentity
the accidental "abstract comma shapes" have lead to this.
on James