• Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    15 days ago

    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.

      • Ellvix@lemmy.world
        101·
        15 days ago

        But now I don’t use em dashes anymore because I don’t want to sound like AI, unfortunately.

        • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
          6·
          15 days ago

          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.

          • StellarStoat@lemmy.today
            4·
            15 days ago

            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.

            • MrShankles@reddthat.com
              3·
              14 days ago

              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)

        • optional@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          15 days ago

          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.

      • Kojichan@lemmy.world
        3·
        15 days ago

        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.

        • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
          2·
          15 days ago

          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.

          • Kojichan@lemmy.world
            3·
            15 days ago

            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.

          • cm0002@lemy.lolOP
            3·
            15 days ago

            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…

    • deHaga@feddit.uk
      2·
      15 days ago

      Ah, I never realised that. For some reason our school never taught us grammar.

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
      1·
      14 days ago

      Sadly, pausing whole speaking to mentally insert a semicolon invites people to interrupt you or try to complete your thoughts (often incorrectly).

  • Psythik@lemmy.world
    17·
    15 days ago

    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.

        • j5y7@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          14 days ago

          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.

  • FrowingFostek@lemmy.world
    131·
    15 days ago

    Also self harm survivors apparently tattoo themselves with it. I like to think it’s a reminder for them that life goes on.

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
      19·
      15 days ago

      Specifically, failed suicide attempts. It’s because a semicolon is used where a sentence could have ended, but keeps going.

  • Zensate@lemmy.world
    102·
    15 days ago

    I use semi-colons a lot. People are so intimidated by them and they refuse to admit how simple they are; it’s literally the combination of a comma and a colon, that’s it. Use it for when both are needed.

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
      141·
      15 days ago

      That is incorrect (to my understanding), it’s the combination of a comma and a period; it only resembles a colon in appearance.

        • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
          6·
          15 days ago

          Fun fact: Mildly annoying fact: a surgery to remove a colon is called a colectomy. A surgery to remove part of a colon is called hemicolectomy. Come on!!! Semi- and hemi- are practically synonyms!

          And I can’t quite remember or find right now what they call what remains, but I distinctly remember that it’s not called a semicolon. Medicine is so dull.

  • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world
    8·
    15 days ago

    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?

  • chunes@lemmy.world
    6·
    15 days ago

    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.