the colon is an odd punctuation mark, denoting directionality rather than cadence
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i guess all of the other punctuation also denotes pauses with specific meanings ok nevermind
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I think drama's a good word. It's very much an introduction. I use semicolons a lot, and I can feel the difference between the two; the semi just flows faster, like a random thought
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Semicolons are like an "and" between two sentences; they just concatenate them one after the other. Colons are more like a "so," implying a logical relationship between them, though obviously that relationship isn't always "so"...
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Hmmm though admittedly a semicolon can also be a "but". Perhaps the thing to say is that the colon implies a logical linkage rather, as the semicolon, than a merely rhetorical one. My favorite colon (and perhaps favorite semicolon) is in this passage from Kant:pic.twitter.com/PqwKxry5qb
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Indexicality, dude
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Was I supposed to read those differently? I feel dumb
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no its not you
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