On this episode we learn about the history of the exclamation point, the question mark, and the semicolon (among many other aspects of language) with Florence Hazrat, a scholar of punctuation, who, to my great surprise, informed me that while a lot of language is the result of a slow evolution, a gradual ever-changing process, punctuation in the English language is often an exception to this – for instance, a single person invented the semicolon; they woke up and the semicolon didn’t exist, and then went to bed that night, and it did!<a href="https://florencehazrat.com">Florence Hazrat's Website</a><a href="https://florencehazrat.com/books/">An Admirable Point</a><a href="https://www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome">How Minds Change</a><a href="https://twitter.com/davidmcraney">David McRaney’s Twitter</a><a href="https://twitter.com/notsmartblog">YANSS Twitter</a><a href="http://www.youarenotsosmart.com/">Show Notes</a><a href="https://davidmcraney.substack.com">Newsletter</a>

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278 - An Admirable Point - Florence Hazrat

You Are Not So Smart