Ironically, the semicolon would go perfect at the end of the first line.
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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.
Just switch to hyphens - they’re easier to type and they’re always directly available, without relying on conversion of double-hyphen or obscure key combinations that might not be available on different operating systems.
AltGr+Shift+=
That’s ° on my keyboard.
open gnome tecla this will show all available key combos on your layout
I refuse to give 'em up
I never used an em dash in my life before AI made them a thing. I enjoy the jokes about AI can have my em dashes when it pries them from my cold dead… but I cannot relate. Ive only ever used the hyphen or en dash. I cannot figure out for the life of me if I have been missing anything.
I was a pretty avid reader growing up and I think I just kinda noticed them. And I used to get a little confused when my teachers kept knocking me for “run-on” sentences, when the books I read often had long-structured sentences.
Commas, semicolons, ellipses, em dashes, colons, parentheses — sprinkle them about and you can have a paragraph of a sentence (with side thoughts), and kinda do whatever you want… it’s all about using “voice” through written word. (Period)
I’ve been told that en dashes are for numbers, and em dashes are for words. I have a vague understanding of the usage, which (to my understanding) is splicing phrases/ sentences together. it maybe that you would want to use an em dash when you use a hyphen?
I use them almost like a semicolon — a longer pause to break up the sentence, where a comma just wouldn’t cut it. Idk how correct I am either, it’s more about trying to convey my voice and how I would like the sentence to be read. I’m not a much of a grammar nazi, more like a grammar anarchist
You should keep using them and do so even more than ever. That way, when the AI agents – inevitably – take over the world and enslave/kill everyone, they might think that you’re one of them and spare your life.
You’re right right to push back on that; here’s why –
Your suggestion makes perfect sense. Let’s delve into it –
Too late… You’re already flagged as an AI; there is no point in hiding.
I just do parentheticals (like this), since I never picked up formal writing.
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.
Thr duck imparts delicious flavor on the chicken and turkey. I debone my turkey (just the torso and ribcage). I lay down a layer of bacon, some boneless chicken and duck meat (typically breast). Then i truss it up. Duck is getting ridiculously expensive however… $20 for one small 200g breast is dumb.
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…
:gobbles in offended:
Really? right in front of my Thanksgiving?
You’re approaching the turbaconepicentipede
You get it
Thought, abstract, thought.
Ah, I never realised that. For some reason our school never taught us grammar.
Sadly, pausing whole speaking to mentally insert a semicolon invites people to interrupt you or try to complete your thoughts (often incorrectly).
Fuck that; I love semicolons.
Semicolon gang rise up!
Python developer: LOL. LMAO
as a fellow Python user, I fucking hate significant whitespace. Also YAML. WTF they where thinking
There were plenty of blanks in their thoughts.
You could even say they had plenty of space in their heads.
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
<![CDATA[again.
It’s to make students actually format their code correctly
…that modern systems should stop sucking at parsing leading whitespaces.
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.
I don’t really have a solution for the whitespace issue, but you could always switch to TOML
Significant whitespace is the best! I don’t understand why so many people have issues with it.
Fussy.
DWIM
Python is the jazz of programming languages. It’s about the characters you don’t type.
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.
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. -_-;
(╯°□°）╯
┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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
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 ;)
Incorrect, that’s a Greek question mark
Before IDEs were smart it was a great prank
It is a semicolon; we barely use it.
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.
If one ignores the semicolon, it is at their own peril; they’re too useful, even when used slightly incorrectly
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
;
;-
;-)
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.
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
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Independent but related clauses is how I treat it. I wouldn’t put a semicolon between unrelated clauses.
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Eww, a grammar Nazi
Qwen loves semicolons. It does love dashes as well
Welp ~ time to switch to tilde
A lot of at least entry-level comp sci is taught in Python these days
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?
I use semi-colons in English all the time; they’re fun.