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I feel your love. But as I told my brother when I was writing his last paper helping him with his last paper - you want a dead giveaway that somebody wrote something for you? Go from being a comma splicer straight to using semicolons.

He wanted a semicolon in there so bad and I said no college professor would really believe that anyone still in college knew how to properly use a semicolon. Well, not him anyway.

I feel for the poor misunderstood semicolon; no one understands it.

I've been known to use the semicolon correctly; however, I've stopped using it at work because reviewers edit it out of everything I write.

I worship the ground the semicolon walks on; I respect all who know how to use it.

But as I told my brother when I was writing his last paper helping him with his last paper

You too?

ETA oops on the double-posting. Sorry!

What Gloomcookie said.

walks away humming "Conjunction Junction"

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I really do not know how to properly use a semicolon. The only times I'm sure are the joining of clauses with however, and for wordy lists when commas won't work.

Did I mention that I never had a class in grammar after grade eight.

You too?

Uh-huh. My brother is 38. Dropped out of highschool when he was 15 and is going back to school for the first time and has become a total geek. It's adorable. He started reading - like - books. He got an award in some chemistry class. But he can't write. So I *help*. He really needs to take English from grades 7-12 over.

I have to clean my apartment. Need motivation.

Favorite albums to clean to - anyone?

A couple of mine are

Cake Fashion Nugget
De la Soul Stakes is High
Los Lobos Just Another Band from East LA (disc 2)

for wordy lists when commas won't work.

You mean using them to separate a series of items which themselves contain commas? Mmm. One of my faves.

t /punctuation porn

walks away humming "Conjunction Junction"

The man responsible for Schoolhouse Rock. And a somewhat obsessive guide to the individual segments.

Dorough performed at a school assembly when I was in 5th grade. He did songs from Multiplication Rock.

And I own an original cell of the Bill sitting here on Capitol Hill.

I put a line break in with those semicolonsemicolon posts because they were making the page too wide. t /stompy

I've got Bob Dorough's early jazz recordings. His vocalese piece on "Yardbird Suite" is great - love it.

I really do not know how to properly use a semicolon.

It's simple really. It joins two independent clauses. Or, as I think of it, two things which could stand as separate sentences.