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The Current State of Affairs in a Tweet (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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."

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Because that was the usage I was describing. What you're describing is just ordinary usage.