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dash2 on Nov 27, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The melancholy decline of the semicolon

Ah, the colon. To misquote Denis Leary, never use a punctuation symbol named after part of your ass. And then the semicolon. Half-assed by name, half-assed by nature.

beebeepka on Nov 27, 2021 [–]

That only makes sense in English and it's not even funny

dash2 on Nov 28, 2021 | [–]

What, are my jokes supposed to make sense in Welsh now?

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