• Zachariah@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      (in standardized English) No, you can’t make them into a star with the semicolon in the center. Sentences are linear, so you can only connect two clauses at a time with one semicolon between them. However, you can chain clauses together, each time using a semicolon to join two independent clauses.

      Except language changes over time, so if the star usage of the semicolon catches on and introduces nonlinear sentences, then have at it.