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Anonymous Fri Sep 20 03:57:31 2019 No.13850545 [Reply] [Original]

do you like semicolon?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 03:58:04 2019 No.13850547 ye

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 03:59:21 2019 No.13850551 I love semicolons; they're great.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 04:00:17 2019 No.13850555 >>13850545 yes; yes

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 04:00:50 2019 No.13850558 >>13850551 I love semicolons. They're great.*

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 04:01:04 2019 No.13850559 >>13850547 >>13850555 I find it a bit confusing >>13850551 is this a correct use of semicolons?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 04:02:59 2019 No.13850564 >>13850558 >>13850559 That's how I was taught to use them; don't make fun of me, faggots.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 04:04:49 2019 No.13850570 >>13850564 That's how I was taught to use them. Don't make fun of me, faggots.*

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 04:05:38 2019 No.13850575 >>13850559 Yeah it's correct usage. You just use it to link to independent clauses, so like replacing a comma and conjunction. >>13850545 I don't think I've ever used a semicolon in serious writing. I always opt for commas or separate sentences.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 04:07:04 2019 No.13850579 >>13850545 >semi did it have cancer?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 04:07:08 2019 No.13850580 >>13850570 >>13850558 He's using them correctly you dingdong. The only caveat is that typically the two clauses are supposed to be related to one another in concept, though I don't think it's a requirement.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 04:10:53 2019 No.13850590 >>13850580 I know. I just hate semicolons because they're redundant.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 04:12:02 2019 No.13850594 >>13850590 I know; I just hate semicolons because they're redundant.*

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 04:13:33 2019 No.13850601

>>13850590
Yeah I feel it; as I said above, I never use them. It's kinda fun to try though. Apparently they are also correct to use before conjunctions when there are multiple dependent clauses and other comma-using sections in a more complex sentence, in order to clean it up a bit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 04:14:35 2019 No.13850604 >>13850594 lel

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 04:37:51 2019 No.13850673 is it meant to be used somewhere where u could use either a comma or a colon and instead do both, cause thats how ive been using them my whole life

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 07:45:59 2019 No.13851194 >>13850594 Upvoted

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 08:09:23 2019 No.13851256 >>13850673 Not at all; I'm sorry. Moreso when either a comma + conjunction or a period works

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 08:20:42 2019 No.13851298 Best way to use it is as a list separator where a list element contains a comma, similar to alternating ( and [ in math.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 09:32:46 2019 No.13851556 >>13850558 >>13850570 >>13850594 The asterix comes first you stupid zoomers

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 09:34:42 2019 No.13851568 >>13851298 I use them this way mostly. I think it makes the separate components of the list clearer especially when you are using a conjunction in one

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 09:35:29 2019 No.13851571 >>13850545 Ye; s

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 09:36:37 2019 No.13851575 >>13850545 >colon, then list with commas divided by semicolons The only chad way to use them

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 09:38:22 2019 No.13851585 I like most of the functions in English, particularly the em dash. The semicolon is a fine tool though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 09:48:03 2019 No.13851625 >>13851556 The asterisk comes first, you stupid zoomers*.

>>	Anonymous !P45fr4QSwk Fri Sep 20 09:49:01 2019 No.13851632 >>13851625 *Cringe.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 09:59:19 2019 No.13851680 I was told semi colons are used to replace a coma, and whenever you feel like it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 10:08:58 2019 No.13851712 >>13850545 interrobang is better.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 10:19:19 2019 No.13851752 File: 273 KB, 1347x1902, 67095449_2638157559550419_8180782912027754496_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13850545 I abuse semi-colons just like I abused your mom last night, OP.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 10:25:31 2019 No.13851775 >>13850545 Yes. It is tactical map of woman from below.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 10:55:16 2019 No.13851905 File: 7 KB, 278x259, th.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13851556 >asterix

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 10:56:19 2019 No.13851909 >>13850555 yes; YES

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 11:05:40 2019 No.13851940 >>13850545 It's a powerful tool when you know how to use it

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 11:07:27 2019 No.13851944 semicolons were invented by smartass students who were too lazy to fix their comma splices

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 15:08:20 2019 No.13853199 >>13850545 Do you like ancient Greek punctuation marks;

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 15:49:10 2019 No.13853455

It can be used to great effect. Usually in delineating big complex sentences.

>In M…, an important city in upper Italy, the widowed Marquise von O…, a lady of excellent reputation and the mother of several well-raised children, let it be known through the newspapers that without her knowledge she had become expectant; that the father of the child to whom she would give birth should declare himself; and that she, out of family considerations, was resolved to marry him.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 15:51:10 2019 No.13853470 File: 17 KB, 220x240, 220px-Cormac_McCarthy_(Outer_Dark_author_portrait).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13850545 All you need is commas and periods

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 16:46:08 2019 No.13853825

>>13850545
I hate what the edgy community has done with it: transforming it into a symbol of overcoming suicide.
>The semicolon represents our unwillingness to give up and put a full stop to our struggle in death
Bitch, some sentences, paragraphs, pages need to end some fucking time. They are just, in my opinion, perpetuating the same sentence that has gone for too long; it is a synonim for conformity in meaning.
Also, in Spanish we have an idiom which translates literally to "turn the page over", to leave hard times behind (after your gf leaves you and you overcome your depression? You turn the page over). The semi-colon tattoo literally represents clinging on to old ideas that brought you pain; the necessity for self-pity and attention.
And a semi-eternal reminder that you are a pussy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 16:47:35 2019 No.13853835 >>13850601 Also in zeugmas. >Carl was wearing a cardigan; Lucy, a sweater; John, a blazer; and Zimmer was swingin' his dick around.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 16:53:05 2019 No.13853864 File: 34 KB, 516x470, Sin título2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13853825 Samefag here. I am reading about project semicolon, and guess what? The founder offed herself.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 16:53:24 2019 No.13853866 >>13850545 who the fuck uses punctuation anyway lmao

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 16:54:07 2019 No.13853873 >>13853866 Anybody but phoneposters.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 16:58:18 2019 No.13853896 >>13853864 Heh

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 17:37:43 2019 No.13854151 File: 85 KB, 662x936, Asterix.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13851556 >asterix

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 17:52:19 2019 No.13854259 [DELETED]

>>13850545
Sure? You definitely want them for lists of pairs. They also can join sentences, but it's annoying when people think semicolons are just "periods but faster." Rules can be broken, but when you have so many other ways to set pace, it's poor form to force it through punctuation.

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 17:54:09 2019 No.13854271

>>13850545
Sure? You definitely want them for lists of pairs. They also can join sentences, but it's annoying when people think semicolons are just "periods but faster." Rules can be broken, but when you have so many other ways to set pace it's poor form to force it through punctuation.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 18:29:56 2019 No.13854458 >>13850545 overrated and prime vehicle for pretentiousness

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 18:32:16 2019 No.13854466 >>13850545 I have no problem with semicolons; it's using them properly i have a problem with.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 00:10:44 2019 No.13855949 >>13850545 javascript

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 00:14:40 2019 No.13855966 >>13850545 Only if there isn't a better alternative, which there almost always is.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 00:51:15 2019 No.13856099 >>13850545 yes but i never use it because it looks like ur winking ;)

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 00:54:23 2019 No.13856111 >>13850545 I know C++ so no I actually hate them with a passion

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 02:07:21 2019 No.13856295 >>13856099 hehe :o

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 02:11:30 2019 No.13856304 >>13853825 The last time I was in the nutter one of the MH techs had a semicolon tattoo. Shit had me like "lol."

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 05:51:35 2019 No.13856818 >>13851556 > asterix I used to say that. Felt pretty stupid when I realised I was wrong.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 05:55:57 2019 No.13856830 >>13856818 In y'all's defense it is q word more commonly heard than read

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 06:03:25 2019 No.13856854 >>13850545 I love it to the point I think I overuse them. I like writing in long sentences with few pauses in between, and a semicolon is the perfect compromise between a comma and a "and".

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 06:16:15 2019 No.13856885 File: 1.74 MB, 1920x1080, 1568895307791.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13856111

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 08:02:13 2019 No.13857180 >>13856818 >>13856830 Also, Asterix's own name is a pun on the "*"

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 11:31:35 2019 No.13857892 Semicolons are great for making emoticons;_;

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 13:06:31 2019 No.13858300 >>13850545 That's the question mark.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 13:20:35 2019 No.13858373 >>13858300 Don't you know that >>13853199 already bet you to it?

Anonymous Sat Sep 21 13:27:25 2019 No.13858415

>>13850545
The semicolon is useful as it allows a greater layering of complex thought in writing; the semicolon allows an increase in the density of thought by implying a closer relationship between clauses than would otherwise be implied by a period. I use the semicolon whenever it's necessary, however it's uncommonly appropriate in vulgar writing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 13:28:27 2019 No.13858423 >>13850545 In ancient times I've been known and worshipped as the semicolon god.

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