Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A difficult part of writing for me is when a single sentence--especially dialogue--contains two tones. It sounds best as a single sentence, but ending with a period, or alternative punctuation, looks wrong. As well as this, using two sentences also looks wrong.

I can't think of a great example right now, but I know I've wanted punctuation that doesn't exist before. I've had moments where it would have been so useful to have a ";!" and a ";?" mark.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I don't really understand what you mean, do you have examples of how you would use it? Or a scenario where you would need it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I’m actually also quite curious

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I have been posting examples under other comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I actually just started working on a post, and wouldn't you believe it!

"And that's great;! But nobody's as weird as I am."

The first half is intended to be an exclamation, but the rest of the sentence is spoken neutrally. It can't be split into two as leading a sentence with "but" is bad practice. It just doesn't look right any way.

Ah, if only we had a line above a comma..