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invertigo hayfever @the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi6/25/2023, 5:57 AM

Natalie @nex3

Video Cathunk @Exameter6/25/2023, 3:59 AM

almost every semicolon used in writing is a complete hail mary. I've never once been confident with the use of a semicolon.

mattachine meow machine @spookybiscuits6/25/2023, 4:57 AM

every time i read a semicolon i think "that must be right. they wouldn't put that there if it wasn't correct"
every time i write a semicolon i think "this is wrong. there is no way i used that right. i'm a fraud. they will see through me. my mentors would be ashamed of me. i should delete this entire document as penance for my audacity"

Amy Dentata @amydentata6/25/2023, 5:08 AM

it's very simple: semicolons connect two independent, but related clauses; penis time 2000.

Irenes (many)@ireneista6/25/2023, 5:15 AM

a good rule of thumb is that if you are using the semicolon correctly, it could be replaced by a period and probably should. penis time 2000?

Natalie @nex36/25/2023, 5:22 AM

when I was in college I once wrote an essay on the tonal implications of the semicolons in The Great Gatsby

#The Great Gatsby

invertigo hayfever @the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi6/25/2023, 5:57 AM

Use semicolons; it's fine; who's gonna stop you, the punctuation police?

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Jess🌺@CyanSorcery6/26/2023, 6:27 AM

it's funny how gamemaker code will be shown with or without semicolons at the end because the gamemaker compiler really does not care if you put one or not

(unless you're packing multiple lines of code on a single line, then it suddenly cares a lot)

bp @bp-6/26/2023, 1:49 PM

Double-check your commas; would the sentence still work if you replaced them with a dot? then a semicolon is a-ok.

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natescape navigator @natescape6/25/2023, 5:21 AM

It indicates a pause and a discrete hand gesture

Amy Dentata @amydentata6/25/2023, 5:26 AM

possibly even a knowing glance

hk @hindsightee6/25/2023, 9:14 AM

is penis time like zulu time, where you say HHMM without a colon separating them?

Amy Dentata @amydentata6/25/2023, 4:03 PM

It’s where you say “Hmmmm!” while looking at the peepee

. . . ?@birdish6/25/2023, 7:49 PM

i don't get what the fuss is about. the grammatical use cases seem fairly straightforward to me; https://youtube.com/watch?v=0V2PAot1dYs

Amy Dentata @amydentata6/25/2023, 9:04 PM

holy moly

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fictive @artemis6/25/2023, 5:59 AM

we actually use semicolons a TON in our writing there's so many places where two sentences are independent enough that they shouldnt have a comma but connected enough that they should have a semicolon

im tired of this lack of RESPECT for SEMICOLONS (/lighthearted)

fictive @artemis6/25/2023, 6:01 AM

we use them less for the sorts of posts we put on cohost but you'll even find them there. seriously we feel like it's so distinctive that we explicitly put effort into not using semicolons when we're writing an article that we want to anonymize from ourselves because we feel like we are the only people in certain circles that use semicolons legitimately and confidently

fictive @artemis6/25/2023, 6:09 AM

some artemis semicolon samples:

For the purposes of the install I decided to go with Gentoo. Yeah yeah, I know; memes aside, Gentoo made sense for this project

I’ll be generous and guess that we’re using 3 bytes for pixel; a 1920x1080 frame is 5.9MiB.

When an attacker is under pressure, they make mistakes; here that pressure is removed.

There’s a lot of sellers on both; I bought mine from [rest of sentence]

ummmm but also im realizing theres a ton of our posts that don't have semicolons..., way more than i realized.......... plurality memory moment, maybe i in particular authorially tend towards semicolons. which is even funnier if true.

Irenes (many)@ireneista6/25/2023, 6:40 AM

<3 that all makes sense and in reality we like semicolons and use them when the occasion seems to call for it. like a lot of things, knowing the general rule is the first step towards knowing when to break it...

in reply to @nex3's post:

gwen @gwenverbsnouns6/25/2023, 5:53 AM

i use semicolons prolifically; if ur sentence isn't running on for an entire paragraph—when we have so many means of throwing in additional clauses at our disposal (like semicolons, em-dashes, and parentheses)—r u rly trying?

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