You Are Not So Smart
278 - An Admirable Point - Florence Hazrat
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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 WebsiteAn Admirable PointHow Minds ChangeDavid McRaney’s TwitterYANSS TwitterShow NotesNewsletter