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[Anonymous No.16450199]

Why do people hate semi-colons? Are they just brainlets who can't figure out how to use it properly?

[Anonymous No.16450205]

>>16450199
>use semicolon
>not mozartesque
>F

[Anonymous No.16450213]

>>16450199
I use semicolons all the time; it's never bothered anyone.

[Anonymous No.16450234]

>>16450199
Semicolons--usually used by pseuds--are like--to use a similie--salt--to use a metaphor--that are overused--like your nan--by pseuds

[Anonymous No.16450239]

>>16450199
normies can hardly use commas properly, they probably won't be able to use any other symbol that has a more complicated use than "at end of sentence" or "before and after text".

Also, aren't commas used for the same purpose or does the semi-colonhave a specific use in English? Afaik we were never thought to use the semi-colon here.

[Anonymous No.16450254]

Semicolons are for homos- I’m a dashCHAD

[Anonymous No.16450258]

>>16450239
>Afaik we were never thought to use the semi-colon here.
Africans can barely read, mate. No wonder you weren't taught how to use punctuation marks.

[Anonymous No.16450260]

>>16450199
Semicolons are a pretty ugly and disruptive mark. I recently read The Ox-Bow Incident (1940) which used one in the middle of dialogue, of all places. Imagine speaking in a semicolon? It makes no sense. Kill this mark.

[Anonymous No.16450318]

>>16450260
>Imagine speaking in a period.
Retard

[Anonymous No.16450325]

>>16450318
You do speak in periods. The very word comes from the period of uninterrupted speech, mongoloid.

[Anonymous No.16450330]

>>16450258
What makes you think he is African, anon? Did you somehow misread “Afaik” as “Africa”? Or perhaps you thought it was a typo? Afaik is just an initilism for “As far as I know”.

[Anonymous No.16450393]

>>16450239

They have a similar role, the semicolon is essentially a more pronounced comma. There are no formalized rules, which is why some people use them and others avoid them.

[Anonymous No.16450448]

>>16450325
But the function of a semicolon can't appear in speech?

[Anonymous No.16450454]

A semicolon is used for joining two otherwise complete thoughts that the author finds tightly coupled for whatever reason in their headcanon. It is always better replaced with a full stop.

[Anonymous No.16450467]

>>16450448
Correct, it would be indistinguishable from a full stop. It's a purely literary device, and, as such, takes too many liberties. You could replace either of the full stops in this post with a semicolon and remain valid, which is just goofy.

[Anonymous No.16450477]

>semicolons

[Anonymous No.16450490]

>>16450477
This man's approach to punctuation is beautiful and heroic, and the only bad thing I can say is that he's so popular that removing quotation marks is now seen as imitating his style, when it's rightly seen as evolving the written language to a higher plateau.

[Anonymous No.16450564]

>>16450260
Retard. Speech is probably the most appropriate place to use semicolons, as people will regularly say sentences with a short pause between clauses rather than a conjuction:

"We dated for a while; didn't work out".

[Anonymous No.16450570]

>>16450564
>We dated for a while. Didn’t work out
There. Fuck you

[Anonymous No.16450578]

>>16450570
I want to connect those clauses. Fuck YOU.

[Anonymous No.16450605]

>>16450578
They're still connected. By common sense.

[Anonymous No.16450608]

>>16450578
hehehhehehe

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>>16450570
yeah i guess that works for dialogue when you're writing a grug tier nigger who talks in abrupt fragments but that's stylistically grotesque

[Anonymous No.16450646]

>>16450254
That's a hyphen babey

[Anonymous No.16450652]

>>16450564
Why not: "We dated for a while. Didn't work out."?

[Anonymous No.16450976]

>>16450652
Depends on how connected you want the two statements to be. When spoken, it would rely a lot on the emphasis and tone given to each clause.