Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.

My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colon

Summary

This quote, attributed to American author Kurt Vonnegut, offers a tongue-in-cheek advice to novice writers about avoiding the use of semicolons. Vonnegut humorously describes semicolons as unnecessary and pretentiously intellectual punctuation marks, suggesting that their usage primarily signals a formal education rather than serving a meaningful purpose. This quote playfully encourages writers to focus on clear and straightforward writing without relying on potentially ostentatious grammatical elements like semicolons.

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Writing College Semi Colons

By Kurt Vonnegut

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