"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:47:50 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
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"Alexander Galaxy" wrote in message
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On 06/29/2016 04:18 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
Hey Ed, is the semicolon after "truck" legitimate?

http://www.tameri.com/edit/punctuation.html

I once had a journalism instructor who wrote his own style book,
available at the college book store. It started off with "This
book
was written to assist the student learn... " He apparently wasn't
satisfied with "help", and had to go with something more
impressive
from his word processor's list of suggestions. Idiot.

In case you missed it, there has been a long string of discussion
here
about the "comma splice".

Ed answered with a fine example of his own.

--jsw

Do you remember where you saw a comma splice?

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Ed Huntress

You gave an example of a semicolon.

"It's often an option among several choices;
sometimes it's by far the best, as in your example."

--jsw