‘The em dash is eating semicolons for breakfast’
“Examples of a punctuation mark that is raging through contemporary prose as rapaciously as clostridium difficile is contaminating our hospitals: the em-dash,” Lionel Shriver wrote for Standpoint magazine. “The em-dash is eating semicolons for breakfast.”
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