I just got some very nice praise, and more information, from Samuel Delany about my latest book. He writes:

I recently enjoyed your book, Punctilious Punctuation, very much. One of the things you didn’t mention, however, is that anyone who has ever studied Greek (as I did in my youth) who learns to speak it (as I did in my time in Greece), realizes that the semicolon functions, in Greek, as a question mark. There is no mention of this in your otherwise remarkably thorough treatment of those jots and tittles.

Wow, thanks, Chip!

(And here’s a picture of the two of us from several years ago.)