• Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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          3 months ago

          I’ve been using it pretty consistently for several years now. I think something about Lemmy attracts the type of people that use interrobangs, rather than Lemmy creating a culture of interrobang use.

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            3 months ago

            I’ve been trying to get the semicolon to take off; haven’t had much luck though.

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              3 months ago

              I had an eloquent friend who used them in college. The advice he got from TAs (many were from overseas) was to not use them.

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                3 months ago

                I got that advice as well – the explanation given to me was that it’s almost always used incorrectly, so just be safe and don’t. However, I like the way it makes writing more closely resemble natural speech; we usually talk in conjoined clauses rather than complete sentences.