Are semi colons and periods the same? Remember,semicolons are not interchangeable with commas or periods. Instead, they're somewhere in between: stronger than a comma but not quite as divisive as a period. Sounds pretty cunning to us. Here are the rules for using semicolons correctly; we ...
The user was in another country, where they use commas instead of periods, dashes instead of slashes, kilometres instead of miles… Or where dates aren’t rendered the way we render them here. The user was testing the product. The user didn’t realizethisproduct doesn’t work the waythatp...
choppy sentences. Others use long, flowery paragraphs without commas that can be a page long. In fiction, it’s about the author’s style choice and their voice. That said, if the author is being traditionally published, they are obligated to follow the publishing house’...
number formats (e.g., do the people in the country use commas or periods as decimal separators); and a plethora of date and time formats. In the example from the previous section, you saw the “pt-BR” string. That identifies the “Portuguese – Brazilian” culture. Since in Brazil the...
Before McKinsey, I had just finished a JD and taking the bar exam, and I was very much in the space of lawyer thinking: super detail-oriented. Lawyers go into work looking for periods and commas. Coming here, I experienced a slightly different value paradigm, harking to the 80/20 princi...
Take note of all of those visually-based verbs: not only do people look a great deal, but our heroine envisages AND tries to imagine how she might appear in his eyes. And did you catch the over-use of subordinate clauses, all of those whiches in yellow? While a tolera...
I don’t know why inks sheen, which is a great question. Blackstone Barrier Reef Blue, on good paper is blue, but tilt the paper and it looks red. Even on not the best paper, periods and dots over “i” and commas can look red. ...
Periods are your friends. 2. Strange Use of Commas And then there are things like this. “Stop!” I shrieked, my voice echoing in the silence, jumping forward to put myself between them. Anyone else think the visual of Bella's voice leaping from her throat to break up a fight is ...
I’m going to now show my true colors as that annoying indie girl, but there is a lot of innovation going on in popular music these days. It’s just not going on on the radio. This has more to do with changes in the music industry than changes in the quality of musicians...
I haven’t worked out the platform / dealing fee implications, so I’m not saying “Do this!” But it is an option worthy of further research if you’re interested. (Please do share your comments below if it’s a strategy you’ve investigated or implemented). ...