Re: [Fwd: Re: Avoid the Semicolon in Tech Writing?]

Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Avoid the Semicolon in Tech Writing?]
From: Sean Brierley <seanb_us -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:19:39 -0700 (PDT)

Do I win if you resort to taking me out of context?
LOL!

Cheers and grins,

Sean

--- dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com wrote:
>
> As I said, you need semicolons to make *this*
> sentence unambiguous:
>
> Your choices are A, B, C, and D, or E.
>
> Sean Brierley wrote:
> >
> > I'd use a table.
>
> So might I, especially given a more complex list;
> but that sentence is
> not a table. Using a table is not an option if you
> want to write *that*
> sentence.
>
> >
> > Dunno, dood, sounds complex.
>
> Um...apparently too much so.
>
> --David
>
> P.S. I never said, nor do I believe to be true,
> that the only reason




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