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Re: Avoid the Semicolon in Tech Writing?

Subject: Re: Avoid the Semicolon in Tech Writing?
From: Jan Henning <henning -at- r-l -dot- de>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:22:01 +0200

Aside from a series in which one or more elements in the series have commas,

This is correct. However, this discussion got me thinking: If you want to avoid the semicolon, you'd have to avoid creating series where elements have commas. How would you do that? Simple: Make the series a bulleted list.

Since a series with commas and semicolons is always a little hard to read correctly, this would likely improve the overall clarity of the text.

So, maybe trying to avoid semicolons isn't such a bad idead.

Regards
Jan Henning

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