• dalekcaan@lemm.ee
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    27 days ago

    You can use semicolons when listing things instead of commas, but that’s usually only for clarity when listing things with commas in them (e.g. “Last summer I visited Las Vegas, Nevada; Tucson, Arizona; Seattle, Washington; and Sacramento, California.”)

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      26 days ago

      I’m mean, you’re not wrong about the semicolon usage but your example is absolute dogwater. I may be sleep deprived but why in Poseidon’s briny deeps would you use a semicolon to separate sentence fragments into their own phrases?!

      e.g. “Last year, I went to Germany, Spain, Italy, and France; and ate schnitzel, ham, gelato, and olives.”