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Is that how you use semi-colons? Man, I never know how to use them.

Thanks for supporting the legion of logic on the Sparta/Beowulf thing though. Good call.

@Colicedus: I actually found dog shit on my shoes today and had to clean it off. It's not really a nice process. I'd appreciate not having to go through that again in the next week/month/year/life.

A semicolon is used to combine two related but incomplete sentences. As "Now then" does not contain a verb, it is incomplete. By joining the next sentence to it with a semicolon in place of a full stop, it is treated as one sentence, but has a pause as though there is a full stop there.

The More You Know™

Ahh...it sounds very close to a comma, but not exactly a comma...and also sounds as if it is quite redundant. Slight changes in sentence structure, such as the addition of conjunctions like "as" or "but" or "though", would mean it would be obsolete. I get interested in strange things. Ahh, the infinite discrepancies.

If I recall correctly, a semicolon is a pause that's slightly longer than a comma, but slightly shorter than a full stop.

I think that a comma would've been used better in that situation, as "Now then" isn't even a sentence, it's just the first part of a sentence.

I'm not sure about the usage, but the way I use it (although I don't use it much, partly because it looks ugly in most cases) would be to connect two sentences. Actually, if I didn't do the thinking on just how I would use it, I would've just said "Like this: The coconut was flung into midair; As a result, it's homing device caused it to aim for the nearest noggin it could find, which happened to be the flinger's." or something. Sure, a comma could've been used in that particular sentence, but it's just an example.

I don't know, I think a period would have been better.

Renegade_Turner wrote:@Colicedus: I actually found dog shit on my shoes today and had to clean it off. It's not really a nice process. I'd appreciate not having to go through that again in the next week/month/year/life.

Ouch... Sucks to be you
Speaking of shit, I pity my grandpas Animals. They literaly live on Shit mountan Creek. The Mountan made with there owen Fecil mater, and the Creek from Flood Iragation run off. Doom had Episode Knee Deep in the dead, Im Chainsaw man, in Chapter: Knee Deep in Shit Creek Mountan. Your complaining about a Turd in/on your shoe. I Had to clean a air of Green (once White) Sox's.
You Imagion Cleaning MY STEAL CAPED SWEID SHOES!

@BunnyWithStick: I'm pretty sure that would have been valid, only that the letter of the word after the semi-colon doesn't take a capital letter unless it's a proper noun.

@Colicedus: I...really dunno what to say to that. All I know is cleaning shit up SUCKS.

Chainsaw man wrote:Doom had Episode Knee Deep in the dead, Im Chainsaw man, in Chapter: Knee Deep in Shit Creek Mountan.

Renegade_Turner wrote:@BunnyWithStick: I'm pretty sure that would have been valid, only that the letter of the word after the semi-colon doesn't take a capital letter unless it's a proper noun.

How do you know? You said yourself you didn't really know how to use them.

Moving on… I was aware of that, but it looked funny the other way round. Now it looks funny with a capital letter. Either way, it's still the joining of two sentences, so wouldn't they keep their capital letters? Actually, they probably wouldn't keep them for the same reason I just said they would keep them, because they're joined.

Brain Hurt!™

BunnyWithStick wrote:How do you know? You said yourself you didn't really know how to use them.

Looked it up. The first letter of the word following a semi-colon is never capitalised except for in the case of proper nouns. That should have been obvious anyway since it's not a new sentence, but all the one sentence. It's just LIKE two separate stand-alone sentences...except not.

Touché. I'll use capitals when I want to, though!

Lol now you sound like Coli.

Lol I need to write that down and quote it.

Makrond wrote:Lol now you sound like Coli.

Shit! I do…

There will be a day when people sound like i Type.
And it will be Normal to sound lie you need spell check.

I TALK LIE I NEED SPELL CHECK

THE SPELL CHECK IS A LIKE

Sorry. I'm a bit hyper right now.