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Verbs. Grammar. Languages. Topics in English. Words,words, words. Audio books. Listen. Teaching Literature (OIB) Dictionnaires langue anglaise. Jon Henley on the fate of the semicolon. It is a debate you could only really have in a country that accords its intellectuals the kind of status other nations - to name no names - tend to reserve for footballers, footballers' wives or (if they're lucky) rock stars; a place where structuralists and relativists and postmodernists, rather than skulk shamefacedly in the shadows, get invited on to primetime TV; a culture in which even today it is considered entirely acceptable, indeed laudable, to state one's profession as "thinker".

Jon Henley on the fate of the semicolon

That country is France, which is currently preoccupied with the fate of its ailing semicolon. Encouragingly, a Committee for the Defence of the Semicolon appeared on the web (only to disappear some days later, which cannot be a very good sign). Articles have been written in newspapers and magazines.

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