Why we’re so emotionally invested in the semicolon
In new book, alum Cecelia Watson examines history of punctuation’s polarizing mark
“The semicolon is a place where our anxieties and our aspirations about language, class and education are concentrated, so that in this small mark big ideas are distilled down to a few winking drops of ink,” writes Cecelia Watson, AM’05, PhD’11. (more…)