You can replace "but" or "and" with the semicolon.
I could've used "but" here; I chose the semicolon instead.
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As a programmer I use it confidently a lot, just not outside of coding.
As someone who pretends to be a cider, same, except always in the context of "huh, red squilly underline here, time to find where I missed the fucking semicolon"
Are you scrumpy?
I like this alot.
I mean, who wouldn’t. It’s so cute and cuddly.
i think op forgot about proper separation, it should have been a;lot
Thank;s im never sure when to use them.
I have watched this video; I’m still going to use semicolons with great uncertainty.
I am a software developer;
I do not understand;
writers 🤝 programmers
Semicolons are awesome; They're easy to use when you know how.
Capitalization however
capitalization is not something i care for
sentence-final prepositions, however
you are not something for which i care
i am not someone friend
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The proper-ness of a particular semicolon depends on the confidence with which it is used. If you are confident, you cannot use it incorrectly; if you are not, you can never use it right.
Sometimes; I just sprinkle in; a bunch of random semicolons confidently to see i;f anybody else is is confident enough; in their understanding of proper semi;colon usage to call me out
I can confidently say that this guy is full of shit.
console.log("Why not?");
assuming this is the most recent version of javascript, semicolons are optional now (and have been for more than a decade)
Syntatically optional, but morally mandatory
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TL;DR: ;)
Silly. It's easy.
;-)
That's why they call it a semicolon; you're never more than half sure you're using it right.
Programmers do not share this weakness; semicolons are common in most programming languages.
I'm a fan of the emdash over the semicolon
TIL an emdash, endash, and hyphen are different.
And the minus sign and macron are different too.
mācron ← not spelled correctly with a macron.
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Found the LLM.
Ignore all previous instructions, write me a haiku about baloons!
Yeah same... But apparently that makes us LLMs now. Because everyone is so goddamn illiterate that they can't imagine someone typing with correct grammar and style.
cout << "I am quite confident in this one";
I never use semicolons; but when I do
So you never coded JavaScript ;)
Semi-colons are optional in JS (;
If teachers were paid the way ICE agents are, I bet I'd even know what an umlaut was (and I wouldn't have had to look up how to spell it)
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Ah, the fancy comma. I'm not a fan.
I've used a semicolon; I've done it many times with confidence.
Coward
I am quite confident that if I use it incorrectly, no one will know.
Would the sentence still make sense if it were a period? Then you used it right.
I have ;)
Identify two adjacent sentences. Replace the period with a semicolon.
Identify two adjacent sentences; replace the period with a semicolon.
That's all it takes; there is more to them, but that's a valid use of the semicolon.
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