look no further than twitter bios where these people proudly proclaim whether or not they use oxford commas
I think the Oxford comma is aesthetically pleasing
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I limit my semi-colon use to lists of clauses that already include commas, and in place of periods between two sentences that have a nice contrast, where the second one completes the picture
I too use the oxford comma every time I can. Just seeing it in twitter bios is an example of how these choices are a weird social or fashion thing.
I wrote a paper about apostrophes years ago and it made me feel a certain way about all this. My apologies.
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Well, I like to use the colon before an explanation, despite the fact that many consider it ugly: it helps to do the same thing you mentioned with semicolons separating sentences with multiple independent clauses and it works better than a semicolon when what follows the punctuation explains what precedes it.
There's my example. If it had a semicolon there, it would kind of diminish the effect of the latter part being explanatory of the former
That shit is mad ugly. This is what I would do.
it doesnt really matter that I think it is ugly. colon it up 
I think commas are gay and run-on sentenfes are fine
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Let's eat grandma!
Let's eat, grandma!
Punctuation saves lives.
Yeah, I was trying to force an example and it came out horrible; your method is much better. I was just typing something naturally and it came out much better. It's asking a question after the colon which is motivated by the clause before the colon
I swear I read a book or some really long journal article on this premise before: is there any chance you know of anything?
About this way you are using the colon? No idea.
No, I mean using the colon to ask a question on what's predicated before the colon is one of the times I much prefer it to a semicolon. I wasn't asking a question about the usage. Sure, you could make it 2 sentences, but often those would be like 3 words and awkward. See the two below
I like that tie: what do you think?
vs.
I like that tie. What do you think?
The former makes the two thoughts seem connected and like the question has a lot more to do with the initial clause. The latter just seems ugly and kind of breaks the two separately, like me liking the tie won't be influenced by what you think of the toe or doing something with that tie (buying it, wearing it, etc) won't be influenced by what you think of it
An even better example of where the latter is an explanation of the former
Found it: it wasn't Wilderson, but Mbembe.
vs.
Found it; it wasn't Wilderson but Mbembe.
vs.
Found it. It wasn't Wilderson, but Mbembe.
I prefer the colon to the semicolon because the semicolon doesn't express that the latter part explains what was found. The period doesn't either, and the two word sentence is ugly af
I don't know, but they were the first to anoint gay/trans clergy people.
Everything they do seems to fly in the face of conservative doctrine with pretty left leaning stances on things like a woman's right to choose, civil rights, and even assisted suicide.
I tried to look up a breakdown of church pedophilia cases based on denomination to hopefully bolster my case, but I could find no such data and am left wondering whether or not gay bishops prey on alter boys in statistically significant quantities compared to their closeted catholic bishop counterparts.
all this chatter of colons, and at first glance I thought y'all was trying to create a body politic analogy relating to bowel health
i used to invoke this kind of imagery when pleading that alightsoul's presence on the boardz amounted to dysbiosis
ive always used semicolons in place of commas when i dont want to use the connecting words for frugal flair
yeah, but they don't really care dude. they don't have to say anything in response to that and they are a ok with it.
smt1m u got 2 hit em wit mnml
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i have a musical request for you
something a bit minimal like this: electronic and heavy base. but, also sort of tribal'ish, if you know of anything. what you got?