Holy Crap, MG Siegler Just Used Both An Em Dash AND A Semicolon Correctly!

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 4:06 PM on January 22, 2010 in Commentary. View Comments Tags: , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/X6

MG Siegler grinning adorably
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:

After all, they were getting great publicity for giving away something that was already free (GrandCentral — which is now known as Google Voice). We wondered if they wouldn’t pull the same stunt in the future. Well, it’s the future; and they are.

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:

Again, this is actually a very nice thing they’re doing, but it’s also an ingenious way to promote what Google clearly considers to be one of its killer products: Google Voice.

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.

  • robertnlee
    I just gave you many kisses at Droid News Net. We aren't even allowed to comment at TechCrunch, anymore, for saying much the same things. Anyway, it's the new piece with Siegler's name in the title, I won't spam your comments, here.
  • Oh, and it's okay for you to link back to the post since you're saying something instead of spamming. For the benefit of anyone reading this thread, it's this post.
  • Really, TechCrunch banned you guys for disagreeing with their articles? I thought they got too many comments to really care that much about one person.

    I mean, I actually got banned from commenting on Dave Winer's blog for disagreeing with him one time, even though I completely admire him, but he at least seems to pay attention to most of his comments.
  • robertnlee
    Oh, and love commas and run-on sentences too much, I do know that. I have to
    be editor and main writer for DNN for the time being, so...the stuff is not
    always as polished as I'd like.
  • robertnlee
    I just wanted to make sure it was cool. Here's the love:

    http://www.droidnews.net/2010/01/mg-siegler-sti...
  • robertnlee
    Yeah, Danny Sullivan put us/me in his spam filter last week because I kept
    arguing with his inane points against Android (He's an SEO expert - why the
    hell would anybody listen to him about UI or mobile topics? Oh, wait, the
    authority thing. Boy, humans need to learn someday that being really good at
    one thing doesn't qualify you to comment on other things.), and then
    TechCrunch did the same thing. It was either because I asked if they even
    had an editorial staff or knew why that might be useful, or because I did
    too much smack talking at Siegler.

    Either way, whatever. I was past done with TC when they let that rich guy
    run an anti-Arab rant a few weeks back because he's rich.
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