In my first podcast episode for 2022, I give a quick review of Cecelia Watson’s book Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, while sharing some of the key themes that resonated with me.

Read a transcript of the episode.

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Links and Show Notes

• Semicolon (punctuation mark)
• Cecelia Watson and Semicolon
• Prescriptivism (or linguistic prescription)
• Descriptivism (or linguistic description)
• Media ecology
• Marshall McLuhan
• Neil Postman
• Faustian Bargain (in Postman’s 10 Principles of Technology)