I used to share a communal office two mornings each week with a guy who had spent several years as a journalist. "I resigned," this former reporter explained, "because they wouldn't let me use a semicolon in a story. In all the stories I ever turned in, some copy editor always took out the semicolons. Eventually, I started to try to sneak one in, but it never worked. No semicolons would appear, so I quit!"
Why do I mention this? It seems that the apparently endangered future of the semicolon is quite the cause celebre in France, as this story from The Guardian explains.
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