alt Hacker NewsWere semicolons in subheadings common before AI? This subheading of the TomsHardware article just seems very artificial:
> The fingerprint only switched the USB connection on; nothing on the card was encrypted.
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weego • yesterday at 4:08 PM
They were if you read a news source that catered to literate readers.
swinglock • yesterday at 3:39 PM
Not long ago it would have been an em dash.
Loughla • yesterday at 3:42 PM
I mean, it's a terrible subheading because it's way too long, but it's grammatically correct. It doesn't read like AI to me, why do you think it is?
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Oh god dammit, I have to stop using semicolons now? That's stupid.