Check it: colons are incredibly useful for introducing new ideas or adding emphasis. And the way people talk on the internet could use significantly more clarity: you can ramble and ramble, and just talk about whatever, expand on your point, really beat that dead horse, and then take a short break. But using colons allows you to introduce an important new idea: they provide a clear separation between different thoughts.

Oh yeah, about the colon as intestinal organ: idk…stay away from Taco Bell unless you have some extra time

  • Cris@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    This is an excellent post, thank you for blessing my feed with this discourse- I also really like using dashes!

    Semicolons, dashes, commas, and colons are all great for breaking up and organizing words without implying to total pause that a period would. I find them perhaps especially useful since I write like I speak, making conveying cadence or pauses to break up run-on sentences particularly important for clarity

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      10 months ago

      Yes! All those underused symbols are useful when you just get a train-of- thought going.