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Punctuation thingies you don't like

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  • Posts: 24,867 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Semicolon, me hole!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭The Strawman Argument


    I always thought a semi colon was somewhere between a comma and a full-stop. Like, there's a clear connection between the two parts of the sentence, so having it broken into two sentences would make it flow poorly but just using a comma makes it as if the second part is following up directly on the first while it's more likely to be a strand of its own? ...dunno if I'm explaining it well there at all. Either way, I find using them makes me marginally more coherent to myself, if nothing else.
    Pretty sure everyone's too uncertain of how to use them to ever call me out on it if I'm wrong :D

    Meanwhile, regular colon is where the contents after the colon are entirely dependent on what came before it, attributes of what came before, something like that.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    efb wrote: »
    Semi Colon; I don't get it
    The difference between then and a cat is that a one has claws at the end of it's paws and the other is a pause at the end of a clause.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Semi colon - Web devs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    oh and being able to make the thingy got this way è but not the other way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    oh and being able to make the thingy got this way è but not the other way.

    é


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    é

    What magic is that!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    What magic is that!

    A Little Trick, Gainful Realisation


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    Fúck yés!


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