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ε#3040. űѸ줫ѸˤѤ줿ֵٻߡפɽ魯ɵ ([2017-08-23-1]) ˰³ɵ (punctuation) ꡥ<;> (semicolon) ϡ#2666. Ѹʶˡ ([2016-08-14-1]) ǿ줿褦ˡ16ȾˤʤäƤ褦䤯Ѥ褦ˤʤäԤǤ롥θ塤ɵ¿Ѥ "heavy style" ߤ18ˤϤ˳ˤƿषƤƤ롥ḽˤۤ semicolon ˴ؤơCrystal (207) ʸϤ̣
It's often been reported that the semicolon is going out of fashion, and the evidence (from the study of large collections of written material) does support a steady drop in frequency during the twentieth century. (They're much more common in British English than American English.) A typical finding is to see that 90 per cent of all punctuation marks are either periods or commas, and semicolons are just a couple of percent. The figure was much higher once. The semicolon had its peak in the eighteenth century, when long sentences were thought to be a feature of an elegant style, heavy punctuation was in vogue, and punctuation was becoming increasingly grammatical. The rot set in during the nineteenth century, when the colon became popular, and took over some of the semicolon's functions. The economics of the telegraph (the shorter the message, the cheaper) fostered short sentences. And today it has virtually disappeared from styles where sentences tend to be short, such as on the Internet.
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Crystal, David. Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation. London: Profile Books, 2015.
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