🧵 the SEMICOLON
Anonymous at Wed, 29 May 2024 13:50:29 UTC No. 16199097
What are your thoughts on the semicolon?
I use it quite a bit in my writing, I love it. In a lot of cases it helps to divide sentences where using a comma would make the entire sentence too long, and you're not really making a list, summary or explanation. It works great to link two sentences together where you elaborate a bit more deeply on your first statement, but you want it to be close enough to emphasize some relationship or dynamic, not in a separate sentence.
My current thesis coordinator says I use it too much, while my bachelor's thesis coordinator noticed it but said he didn't mind. I've also had minor comments from other professors regarding this.
I get the feeling that the only reason it's frowned upon is because it's uncommonly used. It's not a functional issue, it seems to just be like a "scientific tradition" most scholars adhere to.
Anonymous at Wed, 29 May 2024 14:02:37 UTC No. 16199108
>I use it too much
Careful, that might be semicolon cancer. Better get it checked.
Anonymous at Wed, 29 May 2024 15:40:55 UTC No. 16199206
>>16199097
I find that it's too disruptive as separator of lists. I seldom use it because of this reason and instead use that shitty comma before "and" which looks like shit.
Anonymous at Wed, 29 May 2024 17:58:24 UTC No. 16199370
>>16199097
this too is off-topic
go talk about writing here:
>>>/lit/
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 00:28:46 UTC No. 16200002
>>16199370
Scientific writing is nothing like /lit/, this post is nonsense
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 00:38:35 UTC No. 16200016
>>16199097
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
perfect for you, OP!
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 03:29:17 UTC No. 16200180
>>16199206
Oxford comma is useful for disambiguation, I always use it. It doesn't really look bad if you get used to it, and it can only help make things more clear, so I see no reason not to be using it.
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 03:30:42 UTC No. 16200181
>>16199097
Conjunctive adverb for the win
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 03:31:43 UTC No. 16200183
>>16199370
>You suck dicks; therefore, you are homosexual
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 03:45:18 UTC No. 16200194
>>16199097
>op declares they are one of the semicolon users of all time
>doesn't use a single semicolon
op you are gay; also a fag
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 03:49:23 UTC No. 16200196
🗑️ Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 14:07:57 UTC No. 16200803
>>16200181
No fuck that, you're constantly just skipping between different ones not trying to repeat yourself.
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 14:09:29 UTC No. 16200805
>>16200181
No fuck that, you're constantly just skipping between different ones trying to not repeat yourself.
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 14:58:58 UTC No. 16200856
>>16200196
me likey
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 15:06:42 UTC No. 16200866
>>16200196
Why is the comma so close to the period. Who would use such improper typesetting. Gross.
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 15:23:33 UTC No. 16200886
>>16200196
McDonalds..?
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 17:07:31 UTC No. 16201045
>>16200180
https://youtu.be/P_i1xk07o4g
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 17:51:36 UTC No. 16201099
The OP always sends his stupid questions; it just happens to be insufferable.
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 20:24:44 UTC No. 16201310
Always use a newline
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 23:02:54 UTC No. 16201616
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 23:24:13 UTC No. 16201640
>>16199097
I use it to write the composition of functions (or more general morphisms) as f;g instead of [math]g \circ f[/math]. This is consistent with the use of the semicolon in computer science (and arguably in natural language as well), and its availability on every keyboard enables me to do math on any device.
btw I also write x:A for [math]x \in A[/math], although here the use of the colon is merely conventional
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 23:53:39 UTC No. 16201665
>>16199097
>I use it quite a bit in my writing, I love it.
>,
You had one job.