I’ve been having an unrequited love affair with semicolons for some time now. Oh, if you look through my posts you won’t be likely to find any; I haven’t been comfortable that I’m using them correctly when I write.  That is, until now.  Inspired by a 2009 post on Daggle titled conjunction complex sentence misfunction that Danny Sullivan twote this afternoon and a recent comic by The Oatmeal titled: How to use a semicolon: The most feared punctuation on earth, I’ve decided to bring semicolons into my life more.

5 ways I’m bringing the semicolon into my life.

  • I will use “and”, “but” and other conjunctions less; I will confidently use commas and semicolons instead.
  • I will make more winkies in chat programs; I will discover other emoticons that require semicolons.

Ok, that’s only two.  I’m sure I can come up with three more.  Follow me on Twitter to see what they are!

You may be wondering what this has to do with link building. Stay tuned, I’m making my next post about it.

This entry was written by Sean Enns, posted on February 2, 2010 at 7:40 pm, filed under Copywriting and tagged Blog, Copywriting. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.