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There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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A difficult part of writing for me is when a single sentence--especially dialogue--contains two tones. It sounds best as a single sentence, but ending with a period, or alternative punctuation, looks wrong. As well as this, using two sentences also looks wrong.

I can't think of a great example right now, but I know I've wanted punctuation that doesn't exist before. I've had moments where it would have been so useful to have a ";!" and a ";?" mark.

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[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

I'm not techy enough to know if that's something I can do on my android or not. Lol. I never use the laptop for anything other than school.

[-] 418teapot@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ah yeah I don't know how I would do that easily on a phone. Do those in my example above render for you? You should probably be able to just copy/paste them on a phone if they do.

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