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[–] 13 points 5 days ago* (11 children)

I use semi-colons a lot. People are so intimidated by them and they refuse to admit how simple they are; it's literally the combination of a comma and a colon, that's it. Use it for when both are needed.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago* (2 children)

    That is incorrect (to my understanding), it's the combination of a comma and a period; it only resembles a colon in appearance.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    My colon definitely doesn't look like that and if yours does I suggest a doctor's visit.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago

    Fun fact: Mildly annoying fact: a surgery to remove a colon is called a colectomy. A surgery to remove part of a colon is called hemicolectomy. Come on!!! Semi- and hemi- are practically synonyms!

    And I can't quite remember or find right now what they call what remains, but I distinctly remember that it's not called a semicolon. Medicine is so dull.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    It's just a super comma; you can more-or-less use it as a drop-in replacement for EM-Dashes that LLNs ruined for everybody. Also useful for long, complicated lists that feature too many commas and get confusing to read

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    This isn’t right. Both sides of a semicolon need to be independent clauses. That’s not the case with a comma or an em dash; both of which serve similar, but largely distinct, purposes.

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