I’m glad I finished school before the AI era—I put an em dash and a semicolon in the same sentence at least twice in a given paper; this would get flagged every flipping time nowadays.
I do find it an interesting choice. Normally, you’d put a comma there, but you could also use a colon. If you combine comma and colon, you do get a semicolon.
Why did they put a semicolon in the middle of this sentence?
Engagement bait baybee
To bother you
Should have snuck an em dash in there if you really want to rile people up
I’m glad I finished school before the AI era—I put an em dash and a semicolon in the same sentence at least twice in a given paper; this would get flagged every flipping time nowadays.
Same. As an extremely verbose and descriptive writer, I take umbrage at the whole em dash debacle. Can’t a man even puncuate anymore!?
It makes you sound smarter and well; read.
I’ve been successfully trolled.
I do find it an interesting choice. Normally, you’d put a comma there, but you could also use a colon. If you combine comma and colon, you do get a semicolon.
Now, with the caveat that prescriptive grammar is kind of stupid, you’d need to remove the word ‘that’ to make the colon a “correct” choice.
Yeah, true. To both, your correction and your caveat. 😅