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[โ€“] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm perfectly fine with pretty loosey-goosey interpretations of when to use semi-colons. I realize that there is a specific use-case, but in reality it's just used for the most part as a sort of elongated comma; where the intention in the writing is to have a longer pause than a normal comma would.

And I'm absolutely fine with that. No one is really clear on the real semi-colon usage anyway. I'm relatively sure that the last sentance in the previous paragraph is the actual correct usage technically, but who knows? And more importantly, who cares?

[โ€“] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not how you use a semi-colon; you use it when you want to show a logical connection between what would otherwise be two separate sentences.

[โ€“] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Exactly my point. In my brain, that's exactly how I used it. The two statements were logically related, but were separate statements. The fact that the second statement didn't have it's own subject-object-verb is (in my mind) irrelevant.