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Also, a lot of other people don't know how to properly use a semicolon, either.
Yeah, this is what's happening on Twitter at the moment, at least in my particular corner of it.
Here is Mr. Shatner's original tweet (absent of any context, since it's irrelevant to the semicolon issue):
No, Mr. Shatner is not using the semicolon properly, despite many claims by him and others to the contrary. He should have used a comma instead of a semicolon (and also placed a comma between "about" and "but").
This response is the most correct response:
It's not so much that Mr. Shatner misused a semicolon that bugs me, it's that he was being so stubborn in his wrongness when it was pointed out to him. He even ended up blocking the main one who was trying to justifiably correct him. (As an aside, if anyone finds any spelling errors or grammatical errors or typos or whatever in my shit, feel free to point it out if you care enough to do so. Just don't be overly pedantic about it. :p)
So, yeah, this sort of thing is what you're missing if you don't use Twitter. >_>; It's Twitter, though. Grammar on Twitter is, generally speaking, only slightly better than the average cellphone text or Youtube comment. Hell, even I have left the occasional period off the end of a sentence if it didn't fit into the 140 character limit (and if I simply could not find any other, better way to reword such tweets so that the period would fit properly, without losing legibility and without resorting to txtspk).
In any case, this is why I don't try to directly correct anyone when I see terrible spelling/grammar/whatever on the Internet. Instead, I just rant about it on LJ. ¬_¬ This is one of the rare few cases where I've even bothered to refer to the transgressor by name. I'm not going to stop following Shatner over this, but still... it doesn't speak well of him. (EDIT) Though I ended up unfollowing Shatner eventually, anyway, because he's... just kind of an asshole, in general. (/EDIT) (EDIT 2) And I ended up just abandoning Twitter altogether [and then returning and then abandoning it again] because Twitter, in general, is just kind of an asshole. (/EDIT 2)
Yeah, this is what's happening on Twitter at the moment, at least in my particular corner of it.
Here is Mr. Shatner's original tweet (absent of any context, since it's irrelevant to the semicolon issue):
Full text (sans link to retweet), in case it gets deleted later or something: "I have no idea what this is about but if the secret service haven't checked out Boo lately; you don't have to worry."I have no idea what this is about but if the secret service haven't checked out Boo lately; you don't have to worry. https://t.co/FEcAf5UgA8
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) June 23, 2016
No, Mr. Shatner is not using the semicolon properly, despite many claims by him and others to the contrary. He should have used a comma instead of a semicolon (and also placed a comma between "about" and "but").
This response is the most correct response:
@WilliamShatner @iiiiiiisabelle @legaleagle48 You are all incorrect. The comma should be before "but" and the semicolon should be a comma.
— LaverneP (@LaverneTX) June 24, 2016
It's not so much that Mr. Shatner misused a semicolon that bugs me, it's that he was being so stubborn in his wrongness when it was pointed out to him. He even ended up blocking the main one who was trying to justifiably correct him. (As an aside, if anyone finds any spelling errors or grammatical errors or typos or whatever in my shit, feel free to point it out if you care enough to do so. Just don't be overly pedantic about it. :p)
So, yeah, this sort of thing is what you're missing if you don't use Twitter. >_>; It's Twitter, though. Grammar on Twitter is, generally speaking, only slightly better than the average cellphone text or Youtube comment. Hell, even I have left the occasional period off the end of a sentence if it didn't fit into the 140 character limit (and if I simply could not find any other, better way to reword such tweets so that the period would fit properly, without losing legibility and without resorting to txtspk).
In any case, this is why I don't try to directly correct anyone when I see terrible spelling/grammar/whatever on the Internet. Instead, I just rant about it on LJ. ¬_¬ This is one of the rare few cases where I've even bothered to refer to the transgressor by name. I'm not going to stop following Shatner over this, but still... it doesn't speak well of him. (EDIT) Though I ended up unfollowing Shatner eventually, anyway, because he's... just kind of an asshole, in general. (/EDIT) (EDIT 2) And I ended up just abandoning Twitter altogether [and then returning and then abandoning it again] because Twitter, in general, is just kind of an asshole. (/EDIT 2)
