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> A semicolon is what a writer uses to connect two poorly formed ideas to affect a single good one. I know that your use of "affect" (feign, pretend) is techni
by TomSwirly 4y ago
> A semicolon is what a writer uses to connect two poorly formed ideas to affect a single good one.
I know that your use of "affect" (feign, pretend) is technically correct but even as a ridiculous over-user of sesquipedalian words, it made me double-take.
- motohagiography 4y agoHah, thank you. I could go on at some length about how the most important distinction in the english language is disguised in a homonym. Imagine the lives that could be changed by appreciating the difference between something as an effect vs. a representation of it. It would change their perception of self and real. It's a very different experience of the world.