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Lucas Baptista's avatar

Adorno has a good essay on punctuation marks:

“There is no element in which language resembles music more than in the punctuation marks. The comma and the period correspond to the half-cadence and the authentic cadence. Exclamation points are like silent cymbal clashes, question marks like musical upbeats, colons dominant seventh chords; and only a person who can perceive the different weights of strong and weak phrasings in musical form can really feel the distinction between the comma and the semicolon.”

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Pipsqueak's avatar

I've been enjoying noticing semi-colons more when I read. I try to assess why they're there. It brings added liveliness to my reading.

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