Semi colons

Originally posted by @torunn
How about my sentence, Ghost? Is the semicolon correct there?

Is it really that important on a chess site

-VR

Originally posted by @very-rusty
Is it really that important on a chess site

-VR

Not really, but we hardly ever discuss chess, do we? 🙂 I just happen to love grammar.

Originally posted by @torunn
Not really, but we hardly ever discuss chess, do we? 🙂 I just happen to love grammar.

I loved my Gramma too she was a sweet old lady, but I'd never called her old to her face.

I don't think grammar should be all that important on a chess site forum, just my humble opinion.

-VR

Originally posted by @very-rusty
I loved my Gramma too she was a sweet old lady, but I'd never call her old to her face.

I don't think grammar should be all that important on a chess site forum, just my humble opinion.

-VR

The thread is about semi colons - I can't interprete it any other way. Is there a second meaning?

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
The Ghost believes it was used incorrectly and that the sentence would have been better served with a simple comma. 😏

Moonbus still believes it was used correctly and that GoaD would have been better served by an artificially induced coma.

Originally posted by @torunn
The thread is about semi colons - I can't interprete it any other way. Is there a second meaning?

You missed my point entirely I dont understand why semi colons are important on a chess site forum

-VR

Originally posted by @moonbus
Moonbus still believes it was used correctly and that GoaD would have been better served by an artificially induced coma.

Moonbus still believes it was used correctly; GoaD would have been better served by an artificially induced coma.

Originally posted by @very-rusty
You missed my point entirely I dont understand why semi colons are important on a chess site forum

-VR

It is just as important as any other topic we discuss in this forum. And yes, I am missing your point.

Originally posted by @very-rusty
You missed my point entirely I dont understand why semi colons are important on a chess site forum

Semicolons are important in any forum.

Originally posted by @torunn
How about my sentence, Ghost? Is the semicolon correct there?

'Semicolons are rarely used, I hardly remember what I was taught at school; I use them when it feels right to do so.'


Perfect. 🙂

Originally posted by @handyandy
Semicolons are important in any forum.

Thank you. 🙂

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
'Semicolons are rarely used, I hardly remember what I was taught at school; I use them when it feels right to do so.'


Perfect. 🙂

Thank you. 🙂

Originally posted by @handyandy
Semicolons are important in any forum.

Indeed, on a list of the most 'important things ever' in the whole of existence, semicolons came third;


(I ended that sentence with a semicolon just to be contumacious).

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Indeed, on a list of the most 'important things ever' in the whole of existence, semicolons came third;


(I ended that sentence with a semicolon just to be contumacious).

They make a difference.

Originally posted by @very-rusty

I don't think grammar should be all that important on a chess site forum, just my humble opinion.

-VR[/b]

This isn't the 'chess forum.' This is the 'General forum' in a thread entitled 'Semicolons.'

If talk of semicolons wasn't important in a thread about semicolons then the world as we know it is doomed. (Doomed I tell you).