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KRKux
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How many people here actually know how to use them well?
I do not have a clue when to use them....
_________________I had the last spam thread in the TMP. 
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Blue_Nowhere
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I believe I know how to use them correctly, but would probably do a terrible job at explaining their use to you.  HEATHER!!
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John_Vella
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_________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker  Sorry  I'll behave now. Promise 
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HeatherKay
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WHAT!?! ; It's one a : with a tail. What more do you want to know?  When I was taught this at school, a concept missing apparently in this day and age, you could use a semicolon to punctuate a list. For example: "Dogs come in various main varieties: dogs for hunting; dogs for herding; dogs for fighting." Did that make it clearer at all? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicolon_(punctuation)Link fixed- Blue *Runs*_________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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finlay666
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I use it to signify the end of a line of code _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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snowyweston
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I use it as I please.
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HeatherKay
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No need to run. I often wonder at some of the links that don't work. *sigh* _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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KRKux
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Yes the thread was not to explain to me how to use them, I do not care, word tells me when I need one. The point was to find out who else doesn't know But thanks for the effort! _________________I had the last spam thread in the TMP.
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KRKux
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 | | | | HeatherKay wrote: WHAT!?! ; It's one a : with a tail. What more do you want to know? When I was taught this at school, a concept missing apparently in this day and age, you could use a semicolon to punctuate a list. For example: "Dogs come in various main varieties: dogs for hunting; dogs for herding; dogs for fighting." Did that make it clearer at all? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicolon_(punctuation) | | | | |
Yeah, I know what they are, but I hardly use them outside of word, but then word tells me I need to use one And don't you use the semi colon to indicate the list and then commas to seperate the list? _________________I had the last spam thread in the TMP.
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HeatherKay
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I'd use a colon to indicate a list, like I did in my example.
The thing is some punctuation marks are dying anyway. I mean, look at the poor old apostrophe. It's never been loved, much misunderstood, and now it's virtually dead. Some would say the semicolon is going the same way.
Such is progress.
_________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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stuartpengs
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AFAIK the correct place for the use of a semi colon is on a winking smiley.
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forquare1
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I'm sure I was taught that you used semicolons to punctuate a list if you had nested lists, at which point you would use a comma as within the inner list and semicolons to separate the nested lists....Though that's probably wrong... Though as Fin said, I use them now because my code won't compile without them... If Word, or another word processor, tells me to use a semicolon I try to reword the phrase/sentence, I don't fully understand why I would use one, so I don't understand why Word wants one there...
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Fogmeister
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At work I use full stops to signify the end of a line of code  At home, semicolons
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KRKux
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Ok an example from my technology coursework. Whyy? I would have thought a comma? _________________I had the last spam thread in the TMP.
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finlay666
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I try to keep my work and home life seperate They are only used in winking smileys at home _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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