Semicolons were the staple “eyes” in many emoticons back in the day.
;) ;P ;_;
I use it all the time; especially when it’s completely; uncalled for.
I don’t always use a semicolon, but when I do, it’s because I mistyped on my keyboard
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.
Same with em dashes; nested — turducken style — sentences are just how the divergence works.
This subthread feels like home.
But now I don’t use em dashes anymore because I don’t want to sound like AI, unfortunately.
I have a sneaking suspicion I already sounded like AI; maybe AI just sounds like me.
That sounds like a Lady Gaga line.
I refuse to give 'em up
Turducken is amazing. I use bacon as an added layer between the inside of the turkey and the other fowl. Adds a deliciously smokey taste to the whole thing.
I have not actually tried it. It feels like a waste of a duck. The blandness of the chicken and turkey surely diminish the richness of the duck rather than the duck doing anything to elevate the bland birds.
Turkey and to a lesser extent Chicken are quite absorbent, and duck is a damn grease factory. So as it cooks the duck gets it’s richness and then the excessive grease gets absorbed by the chicken and turkey and everything else thus elevating everything to top tier deliciousness
…I think I might need to make it this Thanksgiving…
You’re approaching the turbaconepicentipede
Ah, I never realised that. For some reason our school never taught us grammar.
It is a semicolon; we barely use it.
I use semi-colons in English all the time; they’re fun.
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?
It’s the sniff between cocaine rants
That grammar begs to be read in a Russian accent
Fuck that; I love semicolons.
Semicolon gang rise up!
Ironically, the semicolon would go perfect at the end of the first line.
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.
Also self harm survivors apparently tattoo themselves with it. I like to think it’s a reminder for them that life goes on.
Thats literally what it means
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So many of the languages that don’t use semicolons to separate statements use them to start line comments. It’s like some sort of flex.
They can get truncate-divided by 0.
