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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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A difficult part of writing for me is when a single sentence--especially dialogue--contains two tones. It sounds best as a single sentence, but ending with a period, or alternative punctuation, looks wrong. As well as this, using two sentences also looks wrong.

I can't think of a great example right now, but I know I've wanted punctuation that doesn't exist before. I've had moments where it would have been so useful to have a ";!" and a ";?" mark.

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[–] Boozilla 13 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I've occasionally seen the exclamation mark put inside of parentheses. I interpret it as the writer saying to the reader, "are you seeing this shit?"

Anyway, not sure if that's what you're going for here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

I'm only going for a semicolon with tonality. Overall, super simple and straightforward. It uses already existing marks with already established meaning, and provides a useful way to transcribe dialogue.

Why does this not exist;? Something so damned simple!

Edit: It's not related to (!) or (?). I know, since I quite literally just used these a moment ago somewhere else. It is a little similar, but it's different.

[–] Carrolade 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So, for the record, these things come into existence in the first place simply because someone, somewhere, starts using them. Language is something that drifts over time, and punctuation is no exception.

[–] Hawke 3 points 6 months ago

It’s a bit harder to do this digitally though since the glyphs aren’t just marks on paper.

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