From fisseha@cig.mot.com Thu Feb 16 13:34:42 1995 Received: from moose.cs.indiana.edu by whale.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA15381; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 13:34:36 -0500 Received: from motgate.mot.com by moose.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA03026; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 13:34:35 -0500 Received: from pobox.mot.com by motgate.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1 for ) id AA05399; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 12:33:59 -0600 Received: from po_box.cig.mot.com by pobox.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1) id AA10194; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 12:33:56 -0600 Received: from gerbil.cig.mot.com (gerbil.cig.mot.com [136.182.7.220]) by po_box.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-RELAY-1.11) with ESMTP id NAA20184; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 13:35:28 -0500 Received: (fisseha@localhost) by gerbil.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-1.12B) id MAA27021; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 12:33:54 -0600 From: Yonas Fisseha Message-Id: <199502161833.MAA27021@gerbil.cig.mot.com> Subject: Re: Punctuation Picayune To: dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu (dan), ybf2u@curry.edschool.virginia.edu, fisseha@cig.mot.com Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 12:33:54 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <199502161818.MAA26536@gerbil.cig.mot.com> from "Daniel Yaqob" at Feb 16, 95 01:18:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1731 Status: R > > > WHAT!!!!!!!!!!! ARE YOU A FREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > EVERYONE THINKS THE WAY I DO!!!! I KNOW HOW TO READ A SENTENCE!!!!! > > heheehehehe, really? a semicolon is more abrupt than a colon? > "abruptness of pause that the punctuation mark brings to the flow of well, the way i look at it, if you look at both sides of the punctuation mark (semicolon/colon), can they stand on their own and be gramatically correct and carry the info they were meant to? in a sentence using a semicolon, you can separate the 2 parts on either side of the semicolon and they can stand as complete sentences that convey meaning. but with a colon, the stuff on the right is totally meaningless without the stuff on the left. they are tied more closely imho. > a sentence" may be a better pharse. So much for the prefix "semi", > why wouldn't it mean semi-abrupt ? I thought of colon and semicolon > in the same sence as period and comma. i dont buy the "semi" prefix arguement because too often terms come into being through evolution, not definition. semi-colon does not necessarily mean a benevolent colon. just look at usages of these punctuations and weigh the relationships between elements on either sides of the marks. i think there is a stronger interdependency between elements on either side of a colon than a semicolon. hey, can you either mail me what i replied to you or remail it to the group? i forgot to do group reply so only you got it. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Yonas Fisseha, Software Engineer (708)632-6340 Pager: 0113 Motorola, Wireless System Platforms fisseha@cig.mot.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------