<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7378d532-196f-4bdc-9216-b67b09a0f019/DEE0803C-8214-4E9E-87A5-678E4791A5F8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/18semicolon.html?em&ex=1203656400&en=99c49a0bee62defa&ei=5087%0A" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/18semicolon.html?em&ex=1203656400&en=99c49a0bee62defa&ei=5087%0A" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/18semicolon.html?em&ex=1203656400&en=99c49a0bee62defa&ei=5087%0A"><P><SPAN class="bold">Correction Appended</SPAN></p> <P>It was nearly hidden on a <A title="More articles about New York City Transit Authority" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/new_york_city_transit/index.html?inline=nyt-org">New York City Transit</A> public service placard exhorting subway riders not to leave their newspaper behind when they get off the t</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/18semicolon.html?em&ex=1203656400&en=99c49a0bee62defa&ei=5087%0A"><P>“Please put it in a trash can,” riders are reminded. After which Neil Neches, an erudite writer in the transit agency’s marketing and service information department, inserted a semicolon. The rest of the sentence reads, “that’s good news for everyone.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/18semicolon.html?em&ex=1203656400&en=99c49a0bee62defa&ei=5087%0A"><P>It was nearly hidden on a <A title="More articles about New York City Transit Authority" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/new_york_city_transit/index.html?inline=nyt-org">New York City Transit</A> public service placard exhorting subway riders not to leave their newspaper behind when they get off the train.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/18semicolon.html?em&ex=1203656400&en=99c49a0bee62defa&ei=5087%0A"><SPAN class="bold">Correction Appended</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/18semicolon.html?em&ex=1203656400&en=99c49a0bee62defa&ei=5087%0A"><P>Semicolon sightings in the city are unusual, period, much less in exhortations drafted by committees of civil servants. In literature and journalism, not to mention in advertising, the semicolon has been largely jettisoned as a pretentious anachronism. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/18semicolon.html?em&ex=1203656400&en=99c49a0bee62defa&ei=5087%0A"><P>“When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life,” <A title="More articles about Kurt Vonnegut." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/v/kurt_vonnegut/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Kurt Vonnegut</A> once said. “Old age is more like a semicolon.” </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DEE0803C-8214-4E9E-87A5-678E4791A5F8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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