• Mothra@mander.xyz
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    10 months ago

    I’m just here to comment how nice it is to see semicolons used, and correctly used at that, in a meme. Sexy

      • affiliate@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        the explanation i received a long time ago in grade school was:

        commas should be used when you want to combine a sentence with a sentence fragment (i.e. something that’s not a sentence); semicolons should be used when you want to combine a sentence with another sentence, provided both sentences are closely related to each other.

        now, i’m sure the actual rule is probably more complicated and nuanced than that, but the above idea has served me well throughout my academic career. i’ve found it helpful for getting an intuition on when they should be used and why.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      Christ, I would think that the last thing you’d want to be doing on acid is browsing the internet where you can’t be sure of what exactly you’ll scroll across.

      Maybe I’m vitally misunderstanding acid trips, but where’s your trip guide/designated driver/sober buddy? Where’s your pre-prepped/vetted media to keep you from a bad experience?

      • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
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        10 months ago

        There is no trip sitter lol. The four of us just go on YouTube and find the funniest shit we can, go on a walk. Come back and watch a movie. And finish it all off with a tasteful selection of YouTube poop

  • XOXOX@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’ve never seen this cartoon, but this dude with the mustache has to be some Xer’s top fantasy.

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      10 months ago

      The show is called “Invincible” about a superhero with the same name, who is the son in the image. The father is patterned after Superman and is challenging.

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    10 months ago

    What do you mean by “Citrons” that just means lemon in French and I’ve never heard it used in English.

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        10 months ago

        For the lazy:

        “A source of confusion is that ‘citron’ in French and English are false friends, as the French word ‘citron’ refers to what in English is a lemon; whereas the French word for the citron is ‘cédrat’.

        Other languages that use variants of citron to refer to the lemon include Armenian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Esperanto, Polish and the Scandinavian languages.[citation needed]”