/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16258042]

I hope none of my fellow /lit/izens consort with the Orthographic Jew

[Anonymous No.16258259]

>>16258042
>the Orthographic Jew
The what now?

[Anonymous No.16258285]

>>16258259
The perfidious, currency-debasing, talmudic sorcerer of the arcane markings we term writing: the semicolon.

[Anonymous No.16258290]

>>16258042
;

[Anonymous No.16258292]

>>16258042
oh, you use semicolons? is that because you like to get semi-hard in another man's colon?

[Anonymous No.16258304]

>>16258042
i like it and use it a lot; its just like /, but lit

[Anonymous No.16258341]

>>16258304
You are the very wretch I had in mind, your uncapitalized initial word and omitted period feigning nonchalant indiscretion, already a horrid creature, your pretension is only further underscored by the addition of the disgusting and pointless semicolon. Already I see your beetlelike mind creeping its beady beetlelike thoughts, 'heh maybe I will repost his sentence but with a semicolon' no! No you will not.

[Anonymous No.16258543]

>>16258341
>thinks reading 40k made him a good writer
Maybe you shouldn't give other anons writing advice.

[Anonymous No.16258663]

>>16258042
the semicolon is literally the gigachad of punctuation marks

[Anonymous No.16258671]

>>16258543
I don't know what 40k is but I'm just shitposting

[Anonymous No.16258683]

;)

[Anonymous No.16259042]

Okay so I'm pretty well read and I've been composing a manuscript for a while now and just yesterday i went to read McCarthy's Vanity Fair interview and there's a quip about semicolons so I dug a little deeper and found this.

"Americans have long regarded the semi-colon with suspicion, as a genteel, self-conscious, neither-one-thing-nor-the other sort of punctuation mark, with neither the butchness of a full colon nor the flighty promiscuity of the comma. Hemingway, Chandler and Stephen King wouldn’t be seen dead in a ditch with a semi-colon (though Truman Capote might). Real men, goes the unwritten rule of American punctuation, don’t use semi-colons."[16] In his book titled A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut writes: "Semicolons are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."

Right on the fucking wikipedia article for semicolon. I knew that the great American writers tended to eschew punctuation in general but I had no idea that semicolons were so sacrilegious. I also thought they were kino but now I have to go and replace all of those those virgin semicolons with chad conjunctions.

[Anonymous No.16259265]

>>16259042
memes aside look at this use of the semicolon and colon:
Neither out of doors could aught of him be seen or heard; he had vanished in the thickets, in the dusk; the Orchard-gate stood quietly closed: the Stranger was gone once and always.

[Anonymous No.16259912]

>>16258042
Semicolons are based and cute; I love Semicolons!

[Anonymous No.16259935]

>>16258042
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M94ii6MVilw

[Anonymous No.16260141]

>>16259042
However, you could use semi-colons sparingly. Isn't; that; right; Jack.

[Anonymous No.16260172]

You blithering fags — we all know what supreme sentence severer is.

[Anonymous No.16260192]

>Why yes; I love semi-colons; how could you tell?
>>16258663
Based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.16260205]

>(((semico(((he)))n)))

[Anonymous No.16260244]

>>16258042
I once had an English teacher mark every single semicolon I used in a paper as being incorrect, but never explained to me the correct usage of it.

[Anonymous No.16260251]

>>16258042
i have no idea how to use a semi-colon so i always put it into my writing under the assumption no one else knows how to use it. and i hope, when they see how i use them,they think i know what im doing,and they learn to use them incorrectly.

[Anonymous No.16260566]

The only time I consider using them is in lists with commas in the members. Otherwise it just feels unnecessary.

[Anonymous No.16260633]

Reminder that the only people who hate semicolons are the people too stupid to use them correctly.

[Anonymous No.16260665]

>>16260633
You seem to have made an error; there is no correct way to use a semicolon because they are pointless.

[Anonymous No.16260688]

>>16260244
You use them to link two related sentences
>I can't use it; I don't know how.
Or to separate lists where it could otherwise be confusing
>The train stops in Paris, and in Lyon, in France; in Brussels, in Belgium; in Rotterdam, and, in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.

[Anonymous No.16260712]

I use them daily

[Anonymous No.16260715]

>>16258042
I draft with it

[Anonymous No.16261120]

Is it ok if I use them just for note-taking in lectures especially in a STEM field

[Anonymous No.16261188]

>>16260665
Actually, semicolons can give a sense for the breath/cadence/form of a sentence; and provide a clearer picture of a how sentence may be read; so as to optimize the potential a reader will have read the sentence in mind like the author intended. not that i dont just find them pleasing to use as well

[Anonymous No.16261203]

>>16258042
Obviously Op hasn't read Carlyle.

[Anonymous No.16261238]

>>16261203
I literally quoted Carlyle in this thread you fag
>>16259265

[Anonymous No.16261799]

>>16258042
>How hideous is the semicolon.
Beckett, Watt

[Anonymous No.16261805]

>>16261238
Did you expect me to read every post in the thread? Nevertheless Carlyle's constant use of the semicolon and his ingenious working of punctuation blasts op's question out of any further consideration.

[Anonymous No.16262851]

>>16258042
greeks use what you call a semicolon as a question mark and as a semicolon they use a single upper dot ·

why the based antisemitism;;;

[Anonymous No.16263056]

>>16261799
>Who the fuck is Watt Beckett?
Me

[Anonymous No.16263107]

>>16258042
>virgin baby comma , vs GIGA CHAD BIG COMMA ;

[Anonymous No.16263809]

>>16263056
Sorry, I cannot italicise on 4channel. / Retard.

[Anonymous No.16264177]

>>16263809
Before the internet, in the long ago times, people would indicate italics by _using underscores either side of the italicized text_. You still see it sometimes on the internet, but most people don't remember the time of typewriters to know where it comes from. You can also use asterisks. If you want to indicate bold face, then you double the underscores or asterisks.

[Anonymous No.16264405]

>>16258663
This; you're a beta, OP.

[Anonymous No.16264430]

>>16264177
Right. Thank. It's only not a very common practice, here, to treat (to-be-italicised) book titles thus.