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minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·22 days agoWhy did they put a semicolon in the middle of this sentence?
minus-squarewpb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·22 days agoIt makes you sound smarter and well; read.
minus-squaretempest@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·22 days agoShould have snuck an em dash in there if you really want to rile people up
minus-squarecravl@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·22 days agoI’m glad I finished school before the AI era—I put an em dash and a semicolon in the same sentence at least twice in a given paper; this would get flagged every flipping time nowadays.
minus-squarepotoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-221 days agoSame. As an extremely verbose and descriptive writer, I take umbrage at the whole em dash debacle. Can’t a man even punctuate anymore!?
Why did they put a semicolon in the middle of this sentence?
It makes you sound smarter and well; read.
To bother you
Should have snuck an em dash in there if you really want to rile people up
I’m glad I finished school before the AI era—I put an em dash and a semicolon in the same sentence at least twice in a given paper; this would get flagged every flipping time nowadays.
Same. As an extremely verbose and descriptive writer, I take umbrage at the whole em dash debacle. Can’t a man even punctuate anymore!?