Your Score: Semicolon
You scored 30% Sociability and 64% Sophistication!
Congratulations! You are the semicolon! You are the highest expression of punctuation; no one has more of a right to be proud. In the hands of a master, you will purr, sneering at commas, dismissing periods as beneath your contempt. You separate and connect at the same time, and no one does it better. The novice will find you difficult to come to terms with, but you need no one. You are secure in your elegance, knowing that you, and only you, have the power to mark the skill or incompetence of the craftsman.
You have no natural enemies; all fear you.
And never, NEVER let anyone tell you that you cannot appear in dialogue!
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10 responses so far ↓
1 Jenn // Jun 27, 2007 at 1:13 pm
I saw that meme a while ago and scored as the semicolon as well. I love the wording in that entire paragraph: “sneering at commas, dismissing periods as beneath your contempt.” Haha!
I do love the semicolon. I did not become acquainted with its subtle connotations until I read C.S. Lewis and noted his frequent use of the colon in spots I would normally have place a semicolon. Forced to seek out the MLA manual for grammar, I discovered that the semicolon is used to link two complimentary statements; usually the second emphasizes the first. The colon, on the other hand, may be used to separate statements which contradict; specifically, the colon is used when one desires to illuminated a marked contrast between two ideas.
Grammar is such fun. Have you read Lynn Truss’s book Eats, Shoots and Leaves? Probably you have. It’s one of my favorite books. (I am such a geek.)
2 Jenn // Jun 27, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Augh! A typo in the midst of my beautiful paragraph! Please forgive this egregious error!
3 Parenthesis For Me « Life as I Know It // Jun 27, 2007 at 3:12 pm
[...] Parenthesis For Me I often can’t resist these web quizzes - and I especially couldn’t resist this one that determines which type of punctuation one resembles. I found this one from Mark “the semicolon” Lindner. [...]
4 That’s *Mz.* Semi-colon « Epist // Jun 28, 2007 at 11:57 am
[...] Thursday, June 28th, 2007 in pop culture, eye candy While catching up on some long overdue Google Reader feeds, I discovered that I am a semi-colon. Big thank-you to Jennifer and fellow semi-colon Mark… [...]
5 Martha // Jun 28, 2007 at 12:12 pm
I’m Quotation Marks!!
Martha
6 Mark // Jun 28, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Thanks for the comment, Martha.
Me, I’m looking for an ellipsis. I cannot believe I didn’t end up as one.
Actually, I know where one is but her silly blog wouldn’t let me comment earlier.
7 Mark // Jun 28, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Hi Jenn, sorry, meant to get back to you sooner.
Pish posh, typos are prevalent; they occur.
8 Ross // Jun 29, 2007 at 10:11 am
Thanks for your comment on Kirsten’s blog. Seems meet to respond to it on yours, right? I never knew there would be competition (and envy) over what punctuation on is deemed to be. I certainly never fancied myself an ellipsis, even as it seems oddly appropriate. I’m not sure I’m more than curious about other ellipses (?) out there. Maybe I’d rather associate with an ampersand. I wonder if I should find that bibli0-ellipsis you refer to out there a compare notes.
9 Ross // Jun 29, 2007 at 10:13 am
… and, of course, two typos: (one=>one; a=>and).
10 Mark // Jun 29, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Well, as for finding a biblio-ellipsis, here’s one:
http://braided.blogspot.com/2007/06/blog-post.html
The description is at least as accurate and the main reason is I use them a lot in the “what is left out” sense. Also, my first blog title had 2 of them as it was …the thoughts are broken…
Just seems sort of appropriate is all.