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19648309 No.19648309 [Reply] [Original]

>semicolons in dialogue

>> No.19648324

>>19648309
Yes, retard

>> No.19648332

And?

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19648341

>semicolons at all

>> No.19648356

>Um; he mused; stroking his goatee; dialogue: that would be the written form of speech, yes?

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>he doesn't pronounce his semi-colons

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>>19648309
>poor spelling to critique punctuation on a literature board

>> No.19648753

>>19648309
shoulddialoguebewrittenoutexactlyassaidseemsalittlesillyandifyouaregoungtostakethelibertyof spaces to make your dialogue more clear you might as well avail yourself with all that written language has to offer; ther is only one convention being broken here, to punctuate dialog or to write it as spoken.