Once you master it, you master writing.

>>9798931
Do you think Cormac did?

I always get too overzealous with them; I prefer starting a new sentence to make everything cleaner.

>>9798931
I tried to use them in my journal paper but my supervisor removed them in his edit. I know he thought they were pretentious.

>>9798963
>Journal paper.
>Advisor thinks semi colons are pretentious.

Wow, you must go to a shitty university if an academic thinks a level technicality beyond a baseline level is pretentious.

Once you master it; you master writing.

Once you know how to use it, you never have to use it at all.

(Besides in lists, or translation German, or writing philosophy or law, or for specific effect; it does undoubtedly have a unique feel as a punctuation once understood)

>>9798963
;)

>>9798931
CG question mark.

>>9798966
he could be right as I don't know how to use it and we are in engineering where "." always works

>>9798931
Borges made her his bitch
Fucking old blind bastard why was his power level so high

>>9798931
Bullshit ;^)

childhood is using anglo typography
adolescence is discovering semicolon
adulthood is switching for french punctuation and typography, putting a insecable space before ; and using long dash to separate subjects and verbs