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[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 36 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I don't think Prem Thakker's mastered semicolons quite yet.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

sometimes in math textbooks they use semicolons when listing things. maybe prem thakker’s writing this post for the mathematicians

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can use semicolons when listing things instead of commas, but that's usually only for clarity when listing things with commas in them (e.g. "Last summer I visited Las Vegas, Nevada; Tucson, Arizona; Seattle, Washington; and Sacramento, California.")

[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

That comes with Premium Thakker;

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Semicolons can be used to list items that are more than just a word or two long, and may/may not contain commas. So if you're listing phrases contain commas, putting a comma between list entries would be confusing as fuck.

For example... I will list a few US capital cities, and their corresponding states: Albany, New York, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Sacramento, California, Houston, Texas...

Compare that to: Albany, New York; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Sacramento, California; Houston, Texas.

See? Much clearer.

I don't know if this person did it exactly correctly, and I'm not going to go back and read it again to check, but the idea itself is just fine.

Unless a lot has changed about semi-colons in the past 20 years.

Edit: I reluctantly went up to read it again, and it seems like the only thing missing would be a colon after "The combo of" and a comma before "really says it all"

[–] austinfloyd@ttrpg.network 1 points 10 months ago

I think the semicolons are correct too (though the colon you mentioned would add a lot of clarity). This grammar rule comes up infrequently enough that it can be jarring to encounter a semicolon before reaching the end of a properly formed independent clause.

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

How can they when schools are so dangerous!?