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[–] 116 points 4 days ago

Ironically, the semicolon would go perfect at the end of the first line.

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  • [–] 59 points 4 days ago (28 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 35 points 4 days ago (25 children)

    Same with em dashes; nested — turducken style — sentences are just how the divergence works.

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    [–] 43 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Fuck that; I love semicolons.

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    [–] 22 points 4 days ago* (5 children)

    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.

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    [–] 5 points 3 days ago

    ITT; people artificially constructing wildly unnatural sentences to try an force the semicolon to be useful and still using it wrong

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  • [–] 24 points 4 days ago* (10 children)

    Semicolons were the staple "eyes" in many emoticons back in the day.

    ;) ;P ;_;

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  • [–] 12 points 4 days ago* (7 children)

    "Back in the day"? I still use them \o/

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  • [–] 11 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    Unicode emojis killed the ASCII emoji scene. -_-;

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    [–] 35 points 4 days ago (15 children)

    Python developer: LOL. LMAO

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  • [–] 38 points 4 days ago (12 children)

    as a fellow Python user, I fucking hate significant whitespace. Also YAML. WTF they where thinking

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    [–] 22 points 4 days ago

    It is a semicolon; we barely use it.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Incorrect, that's a Greek question mark

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  • [–] 12 points 4 days ago

    A lot of at least entry-level comp sci is taught in Python these days

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  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    Also self harm survivors apparently tattoo themselves with it. I like to think it's a reminder for them that life goes on.

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    [–] 16 points 4 days ago

    If one ignores the semicolon, it is at their own peril; they're too useful, even when used slightly incorrectly

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    We mean, you can use it often i enough if you use it correctly; if only purely by example.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 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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    [–] 9 points 4 days ago

    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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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago

    I mean, have you seen ML with Python. It doesn't have semicolons.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago* (5 children)
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    [–] 1 point 2 days ago*

    It is a Semicolon

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