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distAnTKarmA said:
Ladies, you need to step outside and get yourself a man who looks at you like snafu looks at a semicolon
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With contempt or disgust at all those who disagree with him?

Or, are you trying to make fun of me because of habitual use of semicolons; does my own messed version of stream of conscious style of writing but with poor punctuation and sometimes poor grammar? Ok, often. I am the only one on here who ever has been called on my writing.

You guys have seen the horrible grammar and punctuation seen here daily. I am the only one ever called on it.
Sad, and desperate if this was in fact a pejorative statement about my use of the semicolon; or do you really like them as well?
 
Jnowhere said:
With contempt or disgust at all those who disagree with him?

Or, are you trying to make fun of me because of habitual use of semicolons; does my own messed version of stream of conscious style of writing but with poor punctuation and sometimes poor grammar? Ok, often. I am the only one on here who ever has been called on my writing.

You guys have seen the horrible grammar and punctuation seen here daily. I am the only one ever called on it.
Sad, and desperate if this was in fact a pejorative statement about my use of the semicolon; or do you really like them as well?
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I am not making commentary on any of that or anything to do with you. I was referencing a common meme/joke, with the only intentional inference being that "snafu likes semicolons and possibly wants to fuck them idk"
 
distAnTKarmA said:
I am not making commentary on any of that or anything to do with you. I was referencing a common meme/joke, with the only intentional inference being that "snafu likes semicolons and possibly wants to fuck them idk"
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I didn't know about that; because of my own rampant use/ misuse whatever of semicolons and I never heard of that meme. My bad. I am not familiar like I said with whatever that meme is or isn't about. Sorry, my persecution complex kicking in to hyperactive. Lol. I can still laugh at my own stupid self, can't I ? 🤣😀
 
Love, loves, loved it so much,

and I'm not so sure if I am still gay, just gay or not even gay maybe at all.
 
distAnTKarmA said:
Essentially, basically, like, sorta, kinda, just; basically just a bunch of useless qualifiers, mostly I find that stuff in my writing though more than speech.

When it comes to speech I will 100% of the time go for the most unnecessary and obscure term possible in any sentence so people can see just how smart I think I am
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Oh god, I peed laughing This was just epic. Thanks for the belly lol 🥹 Chicken noodles for my soul...or something...it's late...
 
Not me, but there's this YouTuber I love and she KEEPS ON saying "Supposubly"* OVER AND OVER and it makes me wanna commit a hate crime every time.


*It's "Supposedly"
 
Quasimoto said:
I love the semicolon so much... it's probably my favorite punctuation!

See what I did there? :th1s: :cringe: Bad habits die hard.

Seriously, though, I love the semicolon. Maybe because I'm also a big poetry fan, and some of my favorite writers tend to use it, or even overuse it on occasion. It feels so versatile sometimes, yet is also very simple and elegant. It's like the comma's fancier more handsome, taller, and wiser brother. Now here I go with my wax poetry; it's just a ; brah.
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I prefer a colon myself ;)
Or putting my semi in a colon
 
Ohhh, in high school, my psychology teacher overused [and I mean to a RIDICULOUS degree where my and my friends started keeping count on how many times he'd say them per 50 minute class] the phrased "purely and simply" and "in actual fact".
 
Shinji Ikari said:
"Like", like all the time.

"Uh" gets a lot of replay too.

Oh, and "sorry", because I'm Bringlish.
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"Like"!!! I use that so much online I make myself cringe. Sometimes I read my posts and think I sound like a 15 year old valley girl with an IQ of 6.
Weird 'cause I don't do that IRL.
 
Quasimoto said:
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
—Thomas Jefferson

Through the years I have actively attempted to improve my verbal fluency and succinctness. I typically proof read everything I write, including the most casual banter, and try to make improvements.

The first three words that come to mind which I tend to overuse are the adverbs, "even", "just", and "like". I have mostly succeeded in minimizing the latter, but the first two annoyingly stick around.

Does anyone else analyze their informal speech?
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just is #1 on the list especially if I just need a syllable. IRL like and little sayings that mean little like 'its true' 'it is what it is'. I also overuse the hell out of the semicolon too
 
I had about a million nicknames for my cat and a lot of them were how my 8th grade friend and I talked to each other, it's some shit for a therapist (if someone heard me ...*laughs maniacally*)
 
I can't stand the word Dude. Like Doood. And the way it is pronounced too. Like spitting air or something.

But I love the word Cunt ! I could say it all day. Dude seems to work better though.
 
^I could see that being on the hated list. You are either a "dude" person or a "fuck" person when it comes to a word that inflexion base could respond to ANYTHING (Im sure there are other options, like cunt, doesn't play well stateside though). Dude is the weakest of the available options to emit "I dont wanna think abouut and respond to this with articulation as a quick syllable should let you know I understand you" word.
 
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