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kurt Vonnegut was rather famously against the use of semicolons. it made me rethink their usage. these days i'm more likely to use two sentences to convey the s
by allenbrunson 18y ago
kurt Vonnegut was rather famously against the use of semicolons. it made me rethink their usage. these days i'm more likely to use two sentences to convey the same idea.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agothere are three ways to break up the flow of writing. . is to start an entirely new subject , is to stay on the same subject ; is somewhere in between, you're still on the same topic but have switched focus. another way to think of it is conversationally. a period is a breath, a coma is a pause, a semi is a slightly longer pause.