Comic Strips

13476 readers

3370 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
Politeness.
Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.

Web of links

!linuxmemes@lemmy.world: "I use Arch btw"
!memes@lemmy.world: memes (you don't say!)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

lawrence@lemmy.world

261

The Outcast (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by Stamets_alt@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

24 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wikipedia has some examples; they are always super helpful in cases like this.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I've always done this one:

Between closely related [independent clauses].
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_clause "Independent clause") not conjoined with a coordinating conjunction, when the two clauses are balanced, opposed or contradictory:[23].
- My wife said she would like tea; coffee would have been my choice.
- I went to the basketball court; it was closed for cleaning.
- I told Kate she's running for the hills; she knew I was joking.

[–] argon 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Basically you use them at points where you'd usually put a period, but you don't want to add as much of a pause.

ETA:

For example

My wife said she would like tea; coffee would have been my choice.

could also be written as

My wife said she would like tea. Coffee would have been my choice.

but it wouldn't sound as nice.

[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

While that may be true, you also put them in places that should have a comma, but you want more pause; this is why boiling it down to a single aphorism is difficult.

For example, I've read most of the comments in this thread, as well as the Oatmeal info-comic that someone linked, and I still don't know with certainty the semicolon I used above is grammatically appropriate.