/lit/ - Literature

>>19778749
Clauses following semicolons can't be fragments; they have to be able to stand alone as complete sentences.

>>19778749
If there's no other semi-colons in the text, then it should be a comma.
Better perhaps change the first comma for a semi-colon, remove the 'and', and change the semi-colon for a comma.
Three clauses in one sentence is awkward, when the 1st and 3rd clause are tangentially related only via the second.
Make it into 2 sentences instead.

>>19778749
So according to this >>19778769 what would be correct is:
>the soldiers were of Magyar ethnicity; their homeland was the Christian Kingdom of Hungary, a state founded in the year 1000

>>19778769
Yes; usually.

>>19778778
That's fine.

>is this sentence GRAMMATICALLY correct?
>proceeds to ask a question about punctuation

>>19778817
Is it punctually correct?

>>19778749
The sentence is eminently comprehensible. The punctuation might be slightly of for present age.

>>19778749
>the soldiers, of Magyar ethnicity, their homeland was the Christian Kingdom of Hungary (a state founded in the year 1000).

Would
>the soldiers were of Magyar ethnicity, and their homeland was the Christian Kingdom of Hungary - a state founded in the year 1000.
be correct?

>>19778749
>Not sure if the semi-colon here should be a comma or colon.
There should be an em dash.

>>19778749
>The soldiers, who were Magyars, ethnically speaking, were from Hungary, which was Christian. It was also a state. That state was founded in the year 1000.

>>19780038

>the soldiers? Magyar, the Christian Kingdom of Hungary: their homeland (founded in the year 1000).

>The humans (who were actually soldiers (of Magyar ethnicity (from Hungary (a kingdom (of Christian persuasion (founded in 1000 (the year, I mean))))) existed.

>>19778749
>Let me tell you a story son. One about my homeland, the Christian Kingdom of Hungary - a state founded over a thousand years ago. Oh yeah, there were some soliders there as well. They were Magyarian.

>>19778749
Are you writing some fake history to convince the West to give you Transylvania?

Soldiers, the magyars 草
Of Hungary struck in the Ciocco Brand,
kingdom, Jesus' light,
of millennium bright
ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα,

>>19778749
Magyars were the soldiers, and from Hungary--that Christian Kingdom founded a thousand years ago--they hailed.

>why yes I do happen to be a magyar soldier whose homeland is the christian kigndom of Hungary (a state founded in the year 1000) how could you tell?

>>19778749
>the soldiers: Magyar. their homeland: the Christian Kingdom of Hungary (a state founded in the year 1000).

>>19780098
You have a knack for this.

>>19778749
They were ethnically Magyar soldiers from the Christian kingdom of Hungary which was founded in 1000ad

>>19778749
It was the year 1000 AD. Exactly the year 1000. Kinda like 2000 but a thousand years before that. It's kind of weird but that was the exact year the Kingdom of Hungary was founded, and they were Christian, and within it's borders lived soldiers of Magyar ethnicity, aka Hungarians of 1000 AD.

>>19778749
They were Hungarians, plain Hungarians, in their homeland, standing since 1000 AD. They were soldiers by profession. They were Christian in faith. They were a kingdom's subjects on the dotted line. But in my arms they were always the Magyars.

Magyars, soldiers of Hungary, fire of the nation. Millennium old, kingdom of Christ. Ma-gy-ar: the tip of the lip taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.

>>19778769
This. OP is retarded

>>19778749
There's something about the peloton girl that I find very attractive.

Semicolon usage used to be way more based. You could use them anywhere for anything in Defoe's time.

>>19780027
Yes, if you intend to put special emphasis on the year of the state's founding.

>>19779053
where's the verb

>>19780116
nice

>>19781846
>verb
sounds like faggot talk to me, you're not some kind of faggot are you anon?

>>19778749
>The soldiers were ethnically Magyar, and their homeland—a state founded in the year 1000—was the Christian Kingdom of Hungary.
Would this fly?

>>19778749
>The soldiers were of Magyar ethnicity and their homeland was the Christian Kingdom of Hungary--a state founded in the year 1000.
Drop the colon and replace the semi with an em dash. (If the part about the state being founded in 1000 is important the em dash works as it's intended but you can still use it even if this isn't so).
>The soldiers were of Magyar ethnicity; their homeland was the Christian Kingdom of Hungry founded in the year 1000.
If you want to use a semi.

>the strange and dishevelled warriors had come from the eastern land of Hungary. A kingdom, one established at the very dawn of first millenium in the year the lord whose devotion to the son of the blessed virgin betrayed their geneological origins as crude nomadic savages whose obscure ancestral homeland lies beyond the edge of maps of which there are only conjectural monsters, demons and men or creatures like them who feast on human flesh.