“Master the Art of Chaos: Unleashing the Power of Punctuation to Confound and Captivate”
& let me tell you, it was annoying.
Prose is not signage. It’s not a tweet. The ampersand is not a word; it’s a symbol, and we are not writing in hieroglyphics. We write in words and sentences. I don’t have anything personal against the ampersand. It looks nice on signage and it comes in handy on Twitter and in text messages. It looks cute on trees where two lovers have carved their names:
Jack & Kate <3
Aw. How sweet.
But it really makes the reading rough when it’s used to replace the word and through an entire piece of writing.
