Ironically, the semicolon would go perfect at the end of the first line.
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Bold of you to assume i dont use it daily; it helps to be autistic and need to explain complex thoughts in a single sentence.
Fuck that; I love semicolons.
I use them in at least one out every of ten comments; I feel like most people don't know how to use them, however.
They're useful if you want to link two related sentences; Sausage links are good too.
ITT; people artificially constructing wildly unnatural sentences to try an force the semicolon to be useful and still using it wrong
Semicolons were the staple "eyes" in many emoticons back in the day.
;) ;P ;_;
"Back in the day"? I still use them \o/
Unicode emojis killed the ASCII emoji scene. -_-;
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Their called emoticons and they are for those with a refined taste. :Þ ∞̊͜° <- I love this pig I figured out how to make.
Python developer: LOL. LMAO
as a fellow Python user, I fucking hate significant whitespace. Also YAML. WTF they where thinking
There were plenty of blanks in their thoughts.
I will take YAML's string blocks where I don't have to escape special characters over JSON any day.
Incorrect, that's a Greek question mark
My senior highschool English teacher (a somewhat precocious PHD student), assigned us basically the opposite of code golf; make the longest grammatically correct sentence you can (with some rules that basically amounted to 'do not be boring/repetitive'). The use of semicolons was encouraged.
Also self harm survivors apparently tattoo themselves with it. I like to think it's a reminder for them that life goes on.
Specifically, failed suicide attempts. It's because a semicolon is used where a sentence could have ended, but keeps going.
If one ignores the semicolon, it is at their own peril; they're too useful, even when used slightly incorrectly
We mean, you can use it often i enough if you use it correctly; if only purely by example.
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.
That is incorrect (to my understanding), it's the combination of a comma and a period; it only resembles a colon in appearance.
My colon definitely doesn't look like that and if yours does I suggest a doctor's visit.
English Teacher: It is semicolon we hardly use it.
So... It's perfectly cromulent to everyone here that an English teacher isn't using proper punctuation and capitalization?
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