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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I've never seen a semi-colon yet that wouldn't be better replaced with a fullstop.
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Eh, I used to believe that myself, but I've found that, after learning how semi-colons are supposed to work, it ends up being best used to express a thought that doesn't completely come to a stop at the end of the main sentence. For example: "Hanging above them were two moons; one red, one blue." This sentence has better flow than saying, "Hanging above them were two moons. One was red, one was blue." or even simply replacing the semi-colon or period with a comma as it elicits a different, and ultimately more fluid kind of "pause" than either of the other viable punctuation choices would.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I prefer this much more than long, drawn-out narrative or exposition.
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Well said.
