As a literary nerd, I use it a lot in my writing.
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Ah, I never realised that. For some reason our school never taught us grammar.
Same with em dashes; nested — turducken style — sentences are just how the divergence works.
This subthread feels like home.
You get it
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.
You’re approaching the turbaconepicentipede
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.
:gobbles in offended:
Really? right in front of my Thanksgiving?
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…
But now I don’t use em dashes anymore because I don’t want to sound like AI, unfortunately.
Too late… You’re already flagged as an AI; there is no point in hiding.
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 –
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.
I have a sneaking suspicion I already sounded like AI; maybe AI just sounds like me.
That sounds like a Lady Gaga line.
Tab gang
Rise Up-1 ∵ Those were spaces you put there.
You thought you could fool me?
Vim: set shiftwidth=4 smarttab
We can afford to just use spaces now
I guess some people would be happy to show how their space-ful codebases have higher
gzipcompression ratio than tabbed ones.
You expect full tabs in this economy?
Tabs are the cheaper alternative.
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.
I never understood the hate for semicolons, until I read Moby Dick.
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.
A lot of at least entry-level comp sci is taught in Python these days
“If you can replace a semicolon or hyphen with a comma/period, you probably should”. Writing advice I received at age ~10 and it never stopped being relevant in literature contexts
Far too many writers use a comma, when they should have used a semicolon or perion. It creates comma splices, where you join two main clauses with a comma.
Wrong:
His new car was flashy, it was bright red and had a custom license plate.
Right:
His new car was flashy. It was bright red and had a customer license plate.
My brain says
His new car was flashy; it was bright red and had a customer license plate.
Is correct
Since we’re well down the path of grammer correction.
I think a ‘custom’ license plate would make more sense.
🤓☝️
Your licence plate might be custom, but mine is customer.
That’s also correct (custom/customer autocorrect error aside).
Lisp devs don’t understand this
Lisp devs go out of their way to pretend they’re not dealing with lisp
... ( isthatso? chump muffin ))))))))))))))))))))))))))) ;; function ended 10 brackets agoI fucking hatte Lisp for its excessive use of brackets. Fuck the Person who thought that you only need one type of bracket and then have shove absolutely fucking everything into it.
Unless your go-to language is something like Haskell or Forth, that first phrase just means you are ignorant of how many brackets your favorite language uses.
Okay, it may use not that much more brackets, but I really dislike the places where you have to use them and it gets even worse simply because it does only use regular brackets. Why the fuck are function declaration and definition part of the same bracket? Why is its the same for conditions?
Lisps are hardly my favorite languages, but the whole point of s-expressions is that it is a uniform syntax, which makes metaprogramming much, much easier. Metaprogramming is kind of the whole thing of lisps.
Yeah I know, but I have no clue about that kind of stuff, simply because I hate that language so god damn much so that I never cared enough to actually learn it a single inch more than it was needed, so that I could copy paste code from StackOverflow into my Emacs config.
I use it all the time; especially when it’s completely; uncalled for.
Semicolons were the staple “eyes” in many emoticons back in the day.
;) ;P ;_;
;-;
I used ;) back in my sexting days. Bitches love ;)
“Back in the day”? I still use them \o/
Unicode emojis killed the ASCII emoji scene. -_-;
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┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)
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Their called emoticons and they are for those with a refined taste. :Þ ∞̊͜° <- I love this pig I figured out how to make.
emoticons
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The old age got me
In my mind and in my car. We can’t rewind; we’ve gone too far…
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?
That grammar begs to be read in a Russian accent
It’s the sniff between cocaine rants
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.
I don’t always use a semicolon, but when I do, it’s because I mistyped on my keyboard
I use semi-colons in English all the time; they’re fun.
