Thread: The semicolon.
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Unread 08-17-2011, 06:18 PM
Carolyn Moore Carolyn Moore is offline
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Default To ; or not to ; that is the question

In another life, I worked as a copy editor and still faithfully buy each update of the N. American industry standard by Karen Judd, Copyediting [yes, one word]. According to that source, a sentence as short as "I looked outside; the weather was not nice" is better served by the less obtrusive comma.

'Just saying.
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