Results tagged “punctuation”

From the list of "things I thought I'd never see", Karl Pearson-Cater (he and I were colleagues about a decade ago) posted a great job listing at MinnPost, which lists the following requirement:

• You know the difference between an "em-dash" and an "en-dash" and you know a little about "Anil Dash"

In case you're interested in the job, here's the Wikipedia page on dashes and here's my about page. Good luck, aspiring web editors!

From this New York Times story on proper use of a semicolon in subway signage:

David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam serial killer who taunted police and the press with rambling handwritten notes, was, as the columnist Jimmy Breslin wrote, the only murderer he ever encountered who could wield a semicolon just as well as a revolver. (Mr. Berkowitz, by the way, is now serving an even longer sentence.)

Part of me thinks Sam Roberts wrote the entire story just to get that last line in. I know I would.