Yes, that's exactly why I'd choose the colon there: the colon points to the second clause as a consequence of sorts.
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Ah yes, that too.
I'm British, so, yes, I'm continentally challenged.
There's no better subject than semi-colons to get a discussion started in an English usage community!
I agree with the idea that these are choices from the punctuation toolbox, but I'm not feeling any difference in tone in your example. Perhaps this is a regional difference (I'm from the UK)? Does a semi-colon connote greater seriousness than a dash?
Another option would be a colon there:
It’s about time the coffee finished brewing: I’ve been waiting for 15 minutes!
That's what I'd probably end up writing; more or less serious than a dash?
Thank you for this interesting post in praise of the em dash.
When I need it, I myself prefer using an en dash separated with spaces to an em dash without, as I find it more visually appealing – the em dash looks odd to me stuck on the end of a word, and provides fewer options for good word spacing. Does that make me a "continentally-challenged user of English"? If so, which continent?
Also, in this sentence
So, they weren’t wrong, but they could have just said that they link two sentences to show a stronger connection–other specific syntactic units have nothing to do with it.
I'd use a semi colon there:
So, they weren’t wrong, but they could have just said that they link two sentences to show a stronger connection; other specific syntactic units have nothing to do with it.
What's the motivation for replacing semi colons and ellipses with em dashes? For me, having access to different punctuations, used correctly of course, adds variety to language.
This opinion looks a little question-begging to me: do all businesses who declare these kinds of things do so as branding? I myself, don't believe they do as many would be doing so for advocacy for minority groups, for example.
Thank you for this brilliant transcription. It's as good as the image itself.
But wouldn't 'leery' make sense there? It means something close to 'suspicious' after all.
Thanks, that looks really fascinating. Only available for pre-order here in the UK, but I'm looking forward to reading in in September.
That seems a good idea to me. Especially if there are megathreads there, either daily or as and when something interesting is happening, as I think these provide a good focal point for interaction.
That looks a promising start. I'll have a look into it when I have some time. I hope some others do too!
I don't know Rust either, but it does appear to be relatively easy to understand; could be worse anyhow.
It would be nice to have a fully documented API to work from: probably not a priority for the lemmy devs right now, I'd imagine.
A vote for the Oxford comma from me too.
Apart from anything else, as an occasional copy-editor, I find it much easier to apply the Oxford comma rule if it's in the style guide than to spot the occasions where it's needed to remove ambiguity when the general rule is no Oxford comma.