Showing posts with label semicolon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label semicolon. Show all posts

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Love in Vane (and how to use a semicolon)

vane

I like weather vanes (and rabbits too), even though I usually know which way the wind is blowing. This is a picture I took of a local vane; click it for the life-size version.

More vane-ity here. (via The Presurfer)

By the way, this post demonstrates the proper use of a semicolon to join independent clauses not conjoined by a conjunction (such as "and" or "but"). I'm a copy editor and I should know.