• chunes@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    They’re useful. Especially to avoid over-using other punctuation such as semicolons. I also use them to avoid back-to-back sentences with exclamation marks!

    There you go. It’s easier, clearer, and less pretentious.

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      13 hours ago

      Okay, but you’ve just created a sentence fragment, which is fine unless you were trying to use complete sentences.

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        13 hours ago

        Fragments are wrong in elementary school grammar, yes. In the real world, they’re used by Charles Dickens and other sophisticated writers intentionally.