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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 10:51:37 +0200

What I was intending to convey was that in a series, it's helpful under
specific circumstances.

Sure, I understand that. And I myself use the semicolon that way.

[...]

In other words, some series are really useful in that form, even if they have
semicolons.

Again, I agree. But they could be even more useful if they were rearranged as a bulleted list, getting rid of the semicolons.

For example, take a look at David's example:
Your choices are A; B, C, and D; or E.

Now rearrange that:
Your choices are:
- A
- B, C or D
- E

I find this second way of putting the options much clearer. (Which is the reason that I prefer it; getting rid of the semicolon is just incidental.)

Regards
Jan Henning

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