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Why did they put a semicolon in the middle of this sentence?
To bother you
Should have snuck an em dash in there if you really want to rile people up
I'm glad I finished school before the AI era—I put an em dash and a semicolon in the same sentence at least twice in a given paper; this would get flagged every flipping time nowadays.
Same. As an extremely verbose and descriptive writer, I take umbrage at the whole em dash debacle. Can't a man even punctuate anymore!?
Lol same... I used to have the alt code for em dash memorized (back when I used Windows)
It makes you sound smarter and well; read.
I've been successfully trolled.
Engagement bait baybee
Wow. They did it.
I do find it an interesting choice. Normally, you'd put a comma there, but you could also use a colon. If you combine comma and colon, you do get a semicolon.
Now, with the caveat that prescriptive grammar is kind of stupid, you'd need to remove the word 'that' to make the colon a "correct" choice.
Yeah, true. To both, your correction and your caveat. 😅