The Birth of the Semicolon
In humanist times, just as in our own, hand-wringing sages forecast a literary apocalypse precipitated by too-casual attitudes about punctuation. “It is not concealed from you how great a shortage there is of intelligent scribes in these times,” wrote one French humanist to another.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/08/01/the-birth-of-the-semicolon/