278 - An Admirable Point - Florence Hazrat

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!
Florence Hazrat's Website (florencehazrat.com)
An Admirable Point (florencehazrat.com/books)
How Minds Change (davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome)
David McRaney’s Twitter (twitter.com/davidmcraney)
YANSS Twitter (twitter.com/notsmartblog)
Show Notes
Newsletter (davidmcraney.substack.com)

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