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@aescling do conservatives think communists worship disorder?? i thought they thought communists were hyper into authority and order and police states

@packetcat the biggest guilty party is the much-derided “comma splice”; if you are joining two complete clauses (both could be their own sentence), you can’t use a comma, so you have to use a semicolon

but you can also use a semicolon just because you’re already using too many commas and using another one would get confusing, or a number of other reasons

@packetcat use semicolons whenever; the more stringent rules are actually when you can or can’t use commas, and you use semicolons in the other cases

@aescling the sharrans literally worship chaos and disorder??

@aescling @packetcat yeah “&” is typically used in names and binds tighter than “and”; it also more frequently does not include the oxford comma

for example one might say “The lawyers offices nearby are Smith & Taylor and Harvey & Sons”, which means something different from “Smith and Taylor & Harvey and Sons”

in music, “&” often indicates two artists working together as a single “band”, whereas “and” typically implies a looser collaboration

in ordinary speech, where there isn’t risk of confusion, the trend is typically to always write out “and” but you can use “&” without problem, it will just look less formal

@aescling @Satsuma they are too disorganized to successfully run a fax machine

@kit @aescling we are also having pasta

@wallhackio secretary of computers

@aescling @vaporeon_ @wallhackio she’ll “definitely” “like” N

@wallhackio spend more time looking at flowers