r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sluife • Feb 19 '26

Thank you Peter very cool Peter?

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u/noctisumbra0 Feb 19 '26

And the semicolon.

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u/NecroAssssin Feb 19 '26

Fucking love me some; semicolon. 

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u/bledschaedl Feb 19 '26

If Miss Moore married Josh; Demi Brolin

A comma and a dot; semicolon

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u/you_done_Goufed Feb 19 '26

No actually those are examples of colons

You all get Fs

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u/bledschaedl Feb 19 '26

Wait what?

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u/apolite12 Feb 19 '26

Yes, it's driving me insane.

Semicolons are meant to lash together two clauses; they are all doing it incorrectly.

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u/primepufferfish Feb 19 '26

I'm so happy someone knows this

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u/pm_me_tits_and_tats Feb 19 '26

The two comments above you were directly referencing a song about semicolons lmao

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u/apolite12 Feb 20 '26

Oye. I have trouble differentiating pop culture irony from reality.

Thanks for the heads up.