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>dude: colons: lmao

>> No.11315041
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>dude dashes — lmao!

>> No.11315055
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>>11315022
>dudes lmao

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>dude: nothing: lmao!

>> No.11315067

I'm addicted to semicolons; I can't stop writing them.

Help.

>> No.11315093

>>11315063
Hello, my name is Cormac and it has been 63 days since I used my last quotation mark.

>> No.11315105

>>11315067
Yeah I've got this problem too'; they're good punctuation tho, basically half comma, half full-stop; the mongrels of the punctuation world.

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>Dude!< : S=sighmbal(l)s, lmao!? /

>> No.11315143

>>11315105

I have a self-imposed limit of one per sentence; if I use more than one it just looks weird to me. I get the occasional colon in, but I can never seem to get dashes right: they always feel out of place– it really bothers me. I usually just end up deleting them.

>> No.11315152

>>11315022
How to properly use colons?

>> No.11315175

>>11315055
at first glance i thought he had fucking massive traps

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Dude[1].


[1] lmao.

>> No.11315494

>>11315105
Funny how you misused them both times in that sentence

>> No.11315528

Only his GFs colon right?

>> No.11315832

>>11315105
>the mongrels of the punctuation world
Dios mío, la abominación ortográfica...

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>>11315067

>> No.11315911

>>11315022
>dude.... elipses... lmao...

>> No.11315915

>>11315063
>>11315093
There's a function in that, and other authors do it as well. You'll think it's pretentious tho.

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>>11315911
forgot pic

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Dude, colons. Lube my ass up.