#semicolons — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #semicolons, aggregated by home.social.
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Guess what:
I’m soon to leave my 40s behind and have yet to figure life out. Kids, teens, and other young ones, there’s no rush. No one has things figured out; we’re all making it up as we go along.
Also, yes, I used a semicolon; semicolons are cool.
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Guess what:
I’m soon to leave my 40s behind and have yet to figure life out. Kids, teens, and other young ones, there’s no rush. No one has things figured out; we’re all making it up as we go along.
Also, yes, I used a semicolon; semicolons are cool.
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Ah yes, because everyone has been on the edge of their seats wondering about the dramatic origin story of the @ sign 😴. #BBC, you did it again—turning #punctuation into a thrilling epic nobody asked for 📜➡️🐌. Next up: the secret life of the semicolon! 🎩✨
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250923-the-3000-year-old-story-hidden-in-your-keyboard #@Sign #originstory #semicolons #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah yes, because everyone has been on the edge of their seats wondering about the dramatic origin story of the @ sign 😴. #BBC, you did it again—turning #punctuation into a thrilling epic nobody asked for 📜➡️🐌. Next up: the secret life of the semicolon! 🎩✨
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250923-the-3000-year-old-story-hidden-in-your-keyboard #@Sign #originstory #semicolons #HackerNews #ngated -
CW: fresh tattoo
spur of the moment. probably not a sensible decision or design. whatever, id been hum/hawing about it for literally a decade, time's a wastin'
(though in hindsight: i would have got a better result actually bringing in the pin i wanted copied than describing it from memory)
the lines are "straight" irl, it's just my arm that's not, lol
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CW: fresh tattoo
spur of the moment. probably not a sensible decision or design. whatever, id been hum/hawing about it for literally a decade, time's a wastin'
(though in hindsight: i would have got a better result actually bringing in the pin i wanted copied than describing it from memory)
the lines are "straight" irl, it's just my arm that's not, lol
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#QuickQuestion: By way of a #CollectiveDetermination...
🧙⚕️🤖:wolfparty:🤖⚕️🧙 | ☕️🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹☕
Are #People using #Semicolons #Less:
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#Semicolons are becoming increasingly rare; their disappearance should be resisted
https://theconversation.com/semicolons-are-becoming-increasingly-rare-their-disappearance-should-be-resisted-257019
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And Michael Tomasello's book "Origins of Human Communication" has a sentence 261 words long that's more intelligible than many sentences one tenth its length.
Clarity hinges on structure and sense, and his line uses 11 semicolons – here, the right choice – to form a precisely executed parallelism.
#writing #punctuation #MichaelTomasello #semicolons #copyediting #syntax
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And Michael Tomasello's book "Origins of Human Communication" has a sentence 261 words long that's more intelligible than many sentences one tenth its length.
Clarity hinges on structure and sense, and his line uses 11 semicolons – here, the right choice – to form a precisely executed parallelism.
#writing #punctuation #MichaelTomasello #semicolons #copyediting #syntax
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Sometimes four short sentences are better than a single 140-word behemoth built with creaky semicolons and sticky tape.
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Sometimes four short sentences are better than a single 140-word behemoth built with creaky semicolons and sticky tape.
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Some writers profess to love semicolons, but if they're using them in place of colons then it's not true love
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Some writers profess to love semicolons, but if they're using them in place of colons then it's not true love
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Botched up #Unix & #C #history aside, a good discussion on why #ProgrammingLanguages use #semicolons:
“We Don’t Talk About Semicolons” [2022], Sean Werkema (https://www.werkema.com/2022/02/10/we-dont-talk-about-semicolons/).
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Botched up #Unix & #C #history aside, a good discussion on why #ProgrammingLanguages use #semicolons:
“We Don’t Talk About Semicolons” [2022], Sean Werkema (https://www.werkema.com/2022/02/10/we-dont-talk-about-semicolons/).
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Punctuation saves this, but there has to be a more elegant way of describing these people and their relationships.
Some seem plausible though.
Daughter Tiffany Trump and her husband Rep. Matt Gaetz
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and his fiancee Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)
‘Frustrated and upset,’ Trump goes silent, then seethes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/04/trump-arraignment-speech-2024-campaign/
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Punctuation saves this, but there has to be a more elegant way of describing these people and their relationships.
Some seem plausible though.
Daughter Tiffany Trump and her husband Rep. Matt Gaetz
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and his fiancee Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)
‘Frustrated and upset,’ Trump goes silent, then seethes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/04/trump-arraignment-speech-2024-campaign/