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. -_-;
Their called emoticons and they are for those with a refined taste. :Þ ∞̊͜° <- I love this pig I figured out how to make.
emoticons
(╥﹏╥)
The old age got me
(╯°□°）╯
┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
In my mind and in my car. We can’t rewind; we’ve gone too far…
;-;
I used ;) back in my sexting days. Bitches love ;)
“If you can replace a semicolon or hyphen with a comma/period, you probably should”. Writing advice I received at age ~10 and it never stopped being relevant in literature contexts
Far too many writers use a comma, when they should have used a semicolon or perion. It creates comma splices, where you join two main clauses with a comma.
Wrong:
His new car was flashy, it was bright red and had a custom license plate.
Right:
His new car was flashy. It was bright red and had a customer license plate.
My brain says
His new car was flashy; it was bright red and had a customer license plate.
Is correct
That’s also correct (custom/customer autocorrect error aside).
Since we’re well down the path of grammer correction.
I think a ‘custom’ license plate would make more sense.
🤓☝️
Your licence plate might be custom, but mine is customer.
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.
I got the joke, it was beautiful; meta jokes are some of my favourite.
But the sentences have to be related… Sausages are good; a bun and relish make sausages taste really good!
My mistake, I will try again:
I am linking a sentence with sausage links in it to my next sentence by way of semicolon; Coincidentally, I pass digested sausage links by way of regular colon.
I don’t think I’ll ever get it.
I never understood the hate for semicolons, until I read Moby Dick.
ITT; people artificially constructing wildly unnatural sentences to try an force the semicolon to be useful and still using it wrong
it’s good someone has invented use for that key.
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.
Thats literally what it means
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;-
;-)
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.
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.
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
LLN
Law of Large Number ruined everything
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.
Eww, a grammar Nazi
Independent but related clauses is how I treat it. I wouldn’t put a semicolon between unrelated clauses.
That’s exactly it.
Qwen loves semicolons. It does love dashes as well
Welp ~ time to switch to tilde
Ironically, the semicolon would go perfect at the end of the first line.
Python developer: LOL. LMAO
Don’t worry, I’m a Java dev, and I’ll replace the whitespace in my indentations with semicolons. That should keep us sufficiently covered with semicolon usage.
as a fellow Python user, I fucking hate significant whitespace. Also YAML. WTF they where thinking
They are alright, yaml problems are overblown, significant whitespace as well.
Whitespaces are not problem at all. But YAML values parsing rules, uh boy…
There is
pyyaml, probably other libraries, that take the pain away.
There were plenty of blanks in their thoughts.
You could even say they had plenty of space in their heads.
Significant whitespace is the best! I don’t understand why so many people have issues with it.
I don’t really have a solution for the whitespace issue, but you could always switch to TOML
It’s to make students actually format their code correctly
I will take YAML’s string blocks where I don’t have to escape special characters over JSON any day.
I will take a hammer to my balls if it means I never have to use
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