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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago by HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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A difficult part of writing for me is when a single sentence--especially dialogue--contains two tones. It sounds best as a single sentence, but ending with a period, or alternative punctuation, looks wrong. As well as this, using two sentences also looks wrong.

I can't think of a great example right now, but I know I've wanted punctuation that doesn't exist before. I've had moments where it would have been so useful to have a ";!" and a ";?" mark.

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[–] 418teapot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I can't find a keyboard with them, or a copy/pastable line where they've been typed

Maybe use combining diacritical marks?

I'm using 0x326 (Combining Comma Below), but you may need the CGJ in there to render correctly in all contexts

e.g.

Foo!̦ Bar?̦

Edit: Combining grapheme joiner, not zero width joiner

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not techy enough to know if that's something I can do on my android or not. Lol. I never use the laptop for anything other than school.

[–] 418teapot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah yeah I don't know how I would do that easily on a phone. Do those in my example above render for you? You should probably be able to just copy/paste them on a phone if they do.