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Can We All Please Ditch the Semicolon?

It contributes nothing and we can do better

R P Gibson
6 min readDec 13, 2020

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You know when you’re writing something on your word processor of choice, and you get that little green squiggly line suggesting a formatting issue? Then you right click and the suggestion is something vague about inserting a semicolon instead? Yeah? Well I’m sick of it, personally. Since when did semicolons become so vital in…

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R P Gibson

Freelance writer of history and humour. Sometimes other stuff. I’ll never use a semicolon and you can’t make me. Click this: https://therpg.medium.com/subscribe