semicolon 的詞源
semicolon(n.)
also semi-colon,點號用於標點符號,由一個點放在一個逗號上方組成,用於標記一個比逗號標記的句子稍微獨立一些的句子,1640年代,這是一個由拉丁詞源 semi- 和希臘詞源 colon(n.1)組合而成的混合詞。這個標記本身在希臘語中是疑問點。semicolon butterfly(1841年起,美國英語)因其翅膀上的銀色標記而得名。
[T]he semicolon was a Latin delicacy which the obtuse English typographer resisted. So late as 1580 and 1590 treatises on orthography do not recognize any such innovation ; the Bible of 1592, though printed with appropriate accuracy, is without a semicolon ; but in 1633 its full rights are established by Charles Butler's English Grammar. ... [I]t is evident that Shakespeare could never have used the semicolon ; a circumstance which the profound George Chalmers mourns over, opining that semicolons would often have saved the poet from his commentators. [Isaac. D'Israeli, "Amenities of Literature," 1841]
“分號是拉丁語的一種美食,被愚蠢的英國排字工人抵制。直到1580年和1590年,拼寫法論文都沒有承認這種創新; 1592年的聖經,雖然印刷得很準確,但沒有分號; 但在1633年,查爾斯·巴特勒的英語語法確立了它的完全權利。...很明顯,莎士比亞從來沒有使用過分號; 這是深思熟慮的喬治·查爾默斯爲之悲傷的一個事實,他認爲分號經常會使詩人免受評論家的困擾。”(艾薩克·迪斯雷利,《文學的樂趣》,1841年)
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