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Semicolons aren't just for high literature: https://serprex.github.io/w/ https://serprex.github.io/w/; > Semicolons are hot Dash seems a poor substitute. A da

by __s 5y ago

Semicolons aren't just for high literature: https://serprex.github.io/w/ https://serprex.github.io/w/; > Semicolons are hot Dash seems a poor substitute. A dash is closer to a period. Semicolons work well for when just using multiple commas would become ambiguous. Shorter sentences also solve that, but sometimes you want a run on sentence, sometimes you want to splice more context in at this very point. & sometimes you just want to drop a conjunction

kreeben 5y ago
>> at this very point. & sometimes Unless you're a famous writer, isn't that against the law? I thought you're supposed to start a sentence with a capital letter, or can anything follow a hard stop? E.g. is this kosher (?): Microsoft copied Java. .net, they called it. Final question; what if your name is kreeben with a lowercase 'k', is this kosher: Grammar is hard. kreeben does not understand it. ?
- __s 5y ago
  That's kosher Writing has no laws, only rules meant to be broken English is also a descriptivist language, rather than prescriptivist. ie English has no spec, unlike French (tho you then have French as it is spoken & French as it is specified). As much as Oxford might want to reign it in, they are only cataloging what the collective spews Examples of miniscule starts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/of_Montreal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/of_Montreal where the band's name is always "of Montreal"
  - msla 5y ago
    > (tho you then have French as it is spoken & French as it is specified) Which means French has no spec, either, merely people trying to create a specification and failing.
  - tsimionescu 5y ago
    >(tho you then have French as it is spoken & French as it is specified) You missed an excellent chance to say 'French as she is spoke' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke
- GavinMcG 5y ago
  Those are both fine because they're proper names. Using "&" in place of the word "and" does depart from common usage (though there's no "law") and does so in such an overt way that it appears pretentious.

by __s 5y ago

kreeben 5y ago

>> at this very point. & sometimes Unless you're a famous writer, isn't that against the law? I thought you're supposed to start a sentence with a capital letter, or can anything follow a hard stop? E.g. is this kosher (?): Microsoft copied Java. .net, they called it. Final question; what if your name is kreeben with a lowercase 'k', is this kosher: Grammar is hard. kreeben does not understand it. ?

__s 5y ago
That's kosher Writing has no laws, only rules meant to be broken English is also a descriptivist language, rather than prescriptivist. ie English has no spec, unlike French (tho you then have French as it is spoken & French as it is specified). As much as Oxford might want to reign it in, they are only cataloging what the collective spews Examples of miniscule starts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/of_Montreal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/of_Montreal where the band's name is always "of Montreal"
- msla 5y ago
  > (tho you then have French as it is spoken & French as it is specified) Which means French has no spec, either, merely people trying to create a specification and failing.
- tsimionescu 5y ago
  >(tho you then have French as it is spoken & French as it is specified) You missed an excellent chance to say 'French as she is spoke' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke
GavinMcG 5y ago
Those are both fine because they're proper names. Using "&" in place of the word "and" does depart from common usage (though there's no "law") and does so in such an overt way that it appears pretentious.