On Semicolons and the Rules of Writing

Re:On Semicolons and the Rules of Writing by runesoerensen on Saturday July 14, 2018 @08:07AM (#17529994)

What’s fractured about “I use X because it helps me do Y” though? The semicolon didn’t convey that efficiently to me, but it did make the overuse point :)

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Re:On Semicolons and the Rules of Writing by stochastic_monk on Saturday July 14, 2018 @09:51AM (#17530347)

I would have used a full colon between those two sentences; no more half measures.

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Re:On Semicolons and the Rules of Writing by ummonk on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:00PM (#17531122)

The semicolon fractured what should have been a single thought.

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