: Re: A tricky serial semi-colon A serial comma is used to separate a list of items: For breakfast, we had ham, eggs, and toast. A serial semi-colon is used when items in the list have commas:

@Frith254

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Punctuation marks where invented to increase readability. So for God's sake, get rid of these semi-colons; my eyes are bleeding.

If you really need the differentiation which shall be achieved with the semi-colons (comma and a non-comma-punctuation-mark), I would suggest parentheses:

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