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Suck it — Chuds

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I love dashes but I also love semi colons. I feel conflicted, author bros.

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Use em-dashes—my favorite dash—like this; semi-colons like this.

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Yuck, my least favourite dash—only used by philistines and Untermensch—the em-dash; a good semi-colon beats it any day.

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Semicolons are only fun to use intentionally improperly and then wait for the reaction

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I used semicolons often before, but have since abandoned them. A period does the same job, looks better, and is less pretentious. I've kept the em dash though.

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Counterpoint; periods are for strags

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A period or a colon is good enough for straggots

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