Timeline for A tricky serial semi-colon
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| Jun 18, 2012 at 12:04 | comment | added | Schroedingers Cat | @justkt - I think it falls between the two somewhat. It is about the appropriate way of writing this - a writing style question - while the focus is on a punctuation mark - a punctuation question. If we treat it as writing style "how can I show this list correctly and clearly", not what the rules strictly say, it works better here. For an answer about "what do the rules say we should do", EL&U would be better | |
| Jun 18, 2012 at 10:31 | answer | added | ggambetta | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 17:34 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | For some really interesting uses of the serial semicolon, have a look here: blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2010/02/… | |
| Apr 17, 2012 at 15:25 | vote | accept | Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum | ||
| Apr 13, 2012 at 11:39 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackWriters/status/190766235514974208 | ||
| Apr 13, 2012 at 2:17 | answer | added | JLG | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 21:21 | answer | added | John Smithers | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 17:56 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | Thanks, that helps put this into context. Have also added the email and marketing tags. | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 17:55 | history | edited | Goodbye Stack Exchange |
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| Apr 12, 2012 at 17:55 | answer | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 17:18 | comment | added | Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum | @Neil: Corporate email and corporate brochure text. | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 17:17 | comment | added | temporary_user_name | I'm leaning towards all commas as well. The serial semi-colons really mess with the flow in that construction. | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 15:56 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | Is this in corporate documentation? A news item? | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 15:34 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Perhaps the rules are different for serial subjects and serial objects. The reason your first case (with semicolons) bothers me si that we're getting a list before we even know why. Flip it around (like in the "he is survived..." case) and it reads quite naturally with semicolons. | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 15:14 | comment | added | justkt | I think this belongs on EL&U and not here. Anyone agree? | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 14:42 | history | asked | Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |