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  • Zarobi@aussie.zone
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    It’s just a super comma; you can more-or-less use it as a drop-in replacement for EM-Dashes that LLNs ruined for everybody. Also useful for long, complicated lists that feature too many commas and get confusing to read

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      LLN

      Law of Large Number ruined everything

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      This isn’t right. Both sides of a semicolon need to be independent clauses. That’s not the case with a comma or an em dash; both of which serve similar, but largely distinct, purposes.

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        Independent but related clauses is how I treat it. I wouldn’t put a semicolon between unrelated clauses.

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          That’s exactly it.

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        Eww, a grammar Nazi

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      Qwen loves semicolons. It does love dashes as well

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        Welp ~ time to switch to tilde

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