Troy Wycliffe’s Reviews > Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation > Status Update

"Our punctation exists as a printed set of conventions; it has evolved slowly because of printing's innate conservatism; and is effective only if readers have been trained to appreciate the nuances of the printed page."

I type not needing to understand hyphens

"Because it is so easy to use, perhaps; and because it is hard to use wrongly; but also because it is, simply, easy to see."

The use of a semi colon is only necessary because adding unnecessary information to the damn sentence ruins the ability to simply use commas which feels more appropriate, to me, when using 'and' or 'but'. Oh ho, but this is to emphasize her point of grammar being hard for the layman! Sure!

"Because it is so easy to use, perhaps; and because it is hard to use wrongly; but also because it is, simply, easy to see."

Because it is so easy to use, my dear; and let me waffle on and faff about now to flex my grammatical chops; but also because it is easy to see

Now thats not a proper sentence because taking a moment to ramble has nothing to do with the sentence. In effect she does this though. So bugger off.