vendredi 27 juillet 2012

Alexandra Petri: You didn?t build what? Grammar vs. the president

Grammar or philosophy?

That is the question.

Some of the most bitter battles of our time have been waged over grammar. The Hatfields and McCoys were chums compared to the people who think semicolons are always a sign of pretension and the people who sprinkle semicolons liberally over all their writing, like salt. At perfectly convivial gatherings, just let someone introduce the question of how many spaces belong after a period, and the guests start lunging at each other with knives.

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