Re: Paul Lockhart's book reviewed in the L.A. Times!

From: Rin Watt <katecwatt_at_gmail.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:54:15 -0000

hey now!

While it is true that my preferred character is a ; rather than an x or a pi, I suppose I do exist within boxes and squares, designed by architects and engineers and other mathy types.... Fair enough.

And, while I can appreciate truly well-designed architecture, it's rare. But a correctly used semicolon is a thing of beauty, always.

I teach the semicolon thusly:

I write on the board, My husband used to beat me. He's dead now.

Then I change the period to a semicolon.

Now that's pretty! ;-)

Beat that, Frank Lloyd Wright, if you can!



"Georgie Hinklemyer" <samoolives_at_...> wrote:
>
> Unless you live in a world very different from the rest of us, you are in constant contact with quadrangles.
> Oh. You do. Never mind.
> :)
> --G.H.
>
Received on 2009-04-24 18:54:22