• melfie@lemmy.zip
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    11 days ago

    They’re useful—especially to avoid over-using other punctuation such as semicolons; I also use them to avoid back-to-back sentences with exclamation marks!

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      11 days ago

      They’re useful. Especially to avoid over-using other punctuation such as semicolons. I also use them to avoid back-to-back sentences with exclamation marks!

      There you go. It’s easier, clearer, and less pretentious.

      • WizardOfFrobozz@lemmy.ca
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        10 days ago

        Okay, but you’ve just created a sentence fragment, which is fine unless you were trying to use complete sentences.