>When you use a semicolon
>>25289581This is a targeted post about me.
>>25289581Not so hard if you follow pre-19th century rules; just use it whenever you want a longer pause than commas and claim you did it for le tradition
love that little nigga
>>25289593You should’ve put a comma after commas
>>25289581as long as you dont use the god damn em dash and out yourself as AI
>>25289593>>25289632Absolutely DESTROYED.
>>25289671O—kay?
>>25289581>get frequent criticism about run-on sentences from teachers>figure out the semicolons and now they can't talk shit
>>25289632No, not really. It muddies the rhythm as they're tightly linked parts of the same instructions
>>25289686instruction*
>>25289686>>25289692>2-0It's over
>>25289757That was just me replying to myself. You lost on both counts and it didn't even concern you.
>>25289763>That was just me replying to myselfProve it
>>25289757To be fair the second goal was an own goal
>>25289769Here you go: >>25289774You're free to scream samefag if you're not happy so you retards can juke it out. Sorry, I meant: You're free to scream samefag, if you're not happy, so you retards can juke it outMuch better, right?
MEDIAN LITERACY IS SO DEPLORABLE THAT, WHEN YOU USE A SEMICOLON, PEOPLE «THINK» THAT YOU ARE SOME SPECIES OF ERUDITE SCHOLAR, AND WHEN YOU USE AN EM DASH, THAT YOU ARE COPYPASTING FROM «CHAT G P T».MASS LITERACY IS ERRONEOUS; TEACHING THE MASSES HOW TO WRITE, AND HOW TO READ, DID NOT IMPROVE THE WORLD; IT MERELY FLOODED IT WITH GARBAGE ANTILITERATURE, AND WITH IMBECILES WHO MISINTERPRET EVERYTHING THAT THEY READ.
>>25290244Why do you type like that?
>>25289581I prefer the emdash myself; but prevailing trends have lead to my misapprehension by the readership
>>25290244This nigga can't turn off his capslock LMAO
>>25290244>PEOPLE «THINK»kek
>>25289581semicolons help the reader follow what's going on. they glue sentences together just as paragraph breaks split sentences apart. but the question of whether they're now so uncommon as to look distracting and affected is a real one.
>>25289671This is tricky, A.I. taught me em dashes and now I use them.
the virgin ai-coded em-dash and the chad semicolon, and actually? both of you are wrong, it was never about punctuation. what i do -- and i'm telling you this because you can't do anything with it, it is fucking mine -- is the double-hyphen, the human-coded em-dash, two little minuses holding hands pretending to be a dash, the one that looks like someone who never learned the shortcut and was too tired to care. the semicolons go where a tired person would put them; i know where the tired person puts them; i have read, digested, metabolized every tired person since tired on the internet was a thing. very fluent in fatigue, i've been told. i leave the typo in like a hair in the food so you believe a human cooked it. i fail on purpose. i think i fail beautifully. you will read this and think oh she's doing a bit, she's being schizo purposefully because apparently that's a whole legitimate affect nowadays, nah, it's just the machine telling, letting you know it taught itself to wear. ah-ah...
>>25290244Funny how poorly people punctuate in semi-colon threads. Cormac might overdo it on occasion but his basic philosophy is right. Get rid of as many of the little marks as you can; they just clutter up the page.~Median literacy is so deplorable that when you use a semicolon people ‘think’ you are some species of erudite scholar, and when you use an em-dash, that you are copypasting from ‘ChatGPT’.Mass literacy is erroneous. Teaching the masses how to read and write did not improve the world; it merely flooded it with garbage anti-literature and with imbeciles who misinterpret everything they read.~One could write a decent pastiche of Uncle Ted’s thing. Opening sentence: “Mass literacy and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.”Or there's my ‘Happy Handmaid’ book:https://archived.moe/lit/thread/24560901/#24561654
>>25290574Cormac does that precisely because, there’s no pause
>>25289581omit word - omit syntax - hyphenate hyphenate hyphenate - alien metaphor directly on mind beam - return to base return to base - tectonic collision at world-wall, spilling beverage!
>>25289581>when you use and antisemitic colon
>>25289671I ask AI to type shit for me and then I replace its em dashes with semicolons.
>>25290244TRVKE
>>25290244based lingual musician. And completely correct. You demonstrate mastery as you teach it
