So I finally got around to writing my paper. Hell, I even got an A. But my professor said I needed to lay off with the semicolons; despite my technically correct usage, she said I was in imminent danger of losing their narrative "punch".
I loves me a semicolon. You can string together phrases without worrying about comma placement or awkward conjunctions or coordinating clauses. You can babble endlessly with a few well-placed semicolons; and the best part is that my paper was on Jane Eyre. Read some Charlotte Bronte one of these days...that kid was totally obsessed with the semicolon. I mean, it's totally rampant, especially in her dialogue.
So, to my Seminar in English Literature professor, I want to give a big old Colonel Klink shout-out.
1 comment:
Leave style alone evil marking professors! Personally, I've never mastered the art of the semicolon. Bravo!
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