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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What about three, four, or more independent clauses? Is that allowed?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think so! Go nuts though, rules are for suckers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hell, I don't even use semi colon, I go full colon!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that second comma should be a semicolon. Also, is that an anal sex joke or am I reading too much into it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

(in standardized English) No, you can’t make them into a star with the semicolon in the center. Sentences are linear, so you can only connect two clauses at a time with one semicolon between them. However, you can chain clauses together, each time using a semicolon to join two independent clauses.

Except language changes over time, so if the star usage of the semicolon catches on and introduces nonlinear sentences, then have at it.