It is a Semicolon
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2026
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ITT; people artificially constructing wildly unnatural sentences to try an force the semicolon to be useful and still using it wrong
We mean, you can use it often i enough if you use it correctly; if only purely by example.
also; you can use it; more often; if you use it; incorrectly; if; only; pur;ely; by; ;e;x;a;m;p;l;e;.
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.
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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.
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I never understood the hate for semicolons, until I read Moby Dick.
Ironically, the semicolon would go perfect at the end of the first line.
It's kinda true. When coding by myself, I hardly ever manually type the semicolon myself, I just rely on the auto format to insert it for me.
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. -_-;
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
(╯°□°）╯
┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
In my mind and in my car. We can't rewind; we've gone too far...
I mean, have you seen ML with Python. It doesn't have semicolons.
It is a semicolon; we barely use it.
A lot of at least entry-level comp sci is taught in Python these days
Python developer: LOL. LMAO
as a fellow Python user, I fucking hate significant whitespace. Also YAML. WTF they where thinking
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