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Holy Crap, MG Siegler Just Used Both An Em Dash AND A Semicolon Correctly!
Oh. My. God.
You guys.
Look at this. Look at this article by MG Siegler.
Are you seeing this? Last two sentences of the first paragraph:
MG wrote that. He wrote that. Em dashes and semicolons were the very first things I ever passive-aggressively taught him. And now he just used them the way they’re supposed to be.
Also parentheticals. All three, in the same paragraph. Wow.
And look at this, right at the start of the next paragraph:
Omigod he just did the same thing with a colon too eeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
MG, you have no idea how proud I am of you; I never thought this day would come so fast. Just think, someday maybe you’ll even spot a place where my own punctuation compromises readability.
Now, all I have to make fun of about you is your Apple fanboyism and obsession with Twitter, making me just like everyone else in the world. Unless, of course, you so much as misplace the acute mark in the word “cliché” (which you have no excuse for because on your Mac it’s as simple as hitting option-E before typing the E). If you do that, I will not hesitate to waste four hours of my life ranting about it in order to get maybe two or three extra pageviews.