/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12220610]

>using semicolons in dialogue

[Anonymous No.12220614]

>>12220610
You ever read Shakespeare anon?

[Anonymous No.12220665]

>>12220610
>being a lazy-ass millenial

[Anonymous No.12220755]

>using semicolons at all

[Anonymous No.12220759]

>>12220610
>using a semite's colon

[Anonymous No.12220765]

>>12220610
I'd put my semi in your colon

[Anonymous No.12220767]

using punctuation

[Anonymous No.12220845]

>>12220767
Jude next time y’all are over in Mesopotamia why don’t you pick me up a few
bottles of that wine they make over there
sure thing Jesus I says
well now the boss is talking he is saying I asked y’all up here because frankly
I’ve been feeling a little sick lately and I want to make sure y’all know what
to do in case anything happens I know one of you is going to do me in I know
that but goddamnit y’all know those people in town are after my ass
the other night I walked down the streets in a disguise and I seen a couple
of you messing around and drinking with the soldiers what’s going to happen
if one of you gets drunk and lets it slip where I’m hiding out then I’ll
be in a fix you know if they was to find me they going to cut me y’all ever
think about that and Peter ain’t you ever going to get it straight what you’re
supposed to do give me one of those biscuits Judas and go outside and take a
look-see I got you Jesus Judas says
John leans over he says been catching any fish Peter
oh well I been getting a few of a morning they ain’t biting too good now you know
on account of this blamed weather nobody is even listening to Jesus he’s just
talking to himself like he was crazy Matthew says I believe he’s been hitting
that wine a little too hard don’t you reckon
Jesus says another thing I told all of you it’d be better if you didn’t get
involved with women
now just listen to that little two-faced bastard James the Lesser says
we all know what he’s up to shacking up with all those town girls
the other night he was dressed fit to kill and drunk as six hundred dollars
a rolling around in the mud like a hog kissing that whore’s foot why shit
I wish he’d let us in on what he really does
Thomas spoke up for once he says I know what you mean the other day Andrew
and I asked him about some scripture he said leave me alone I don’t know
nothing about that shit and then we seen him cussing out a priest over at the
temple he knew more about it than the elder did
another thing Matthew says I wish he’d start writing what he wants done down
and do it so I can read it you know as well as I do that damned Peter can’t
keep it straight he won’t get anything right
Bartholomew says don’t make no difference atoll cause Paul is going to tell
it like he wants to that’s for damned sure
all the time Jesus just mumbling to himself wine spilt all over his robe
the rest of them chattering and cussing trying to figure him out
John the Baptist about the only one Jesus can count on except for crazy John
is banging his goblet on the table he is saying now ain’t this a sight
spitting in the lord’s face at his own birthday party I’ll swan
Brother John why don’t you tell Jesus what the real problem is
the crazy one says everyone of y’all is chickenshits you are afraid to look
those elders in the eye and tell them what you think ya’ll get up on a rock

[Anonymous No.12220855]

Once I learned my entire life I was using commas wrong because I was taught wrong and trying to change but not changing; I use them ALL the time. It’s so nice.

[Anonymous No.12220859]

>punctuating

[Anonymous No.12220865]

>>12220845
Did you get banned from /tv/ too based lyrics poster?

[Anonymous No.12221575]

>using parentheses in dialogue

[Anonymous No.12223176]

>>12220610
The use of semicolons and the em dash can replicate the flow of natural speech in written text. Without them, flow either dies or the text needs to be altered in order for it to be decipherable by the reader. Much of what we consider to be incorrect grammar in common parlance is actually grammatically conforming if you can imagine the proper punctuation that needs to be associated with it.

[Anonymous No.12223184]

>>12220855
Pic related is a good text on the subject.

[Anonymous No.12223191]

>using full stops to end your sentences;

[Anonymous No.12223195]

>>12220610
> Steins;Gate was literary.

[Anonymous No.12223235]

>using language

[Anonymous No.12223256]

>using an independent clause after a semicolon

[Anonymous No.12223273]

>>12223256
Stop me.

[Anonymous No.12224198]

>>12223235
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[Anonymous No.12224212]

>>12220610
>using quotation marks or breaks to delineate dialogue

[Anonymous No.12224213]

>Not rejecting the scholary tradition of specifying pages in footnotes; since books are made to be read, and not consulted.

[Anonymous No.12224224]

>mfw i put my semi in someone's colon

[Anonymous No.12224440]

>title has a semicolon