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   Language is different; the tone changes when you change any word or even just punctuation.
   Language doesn't work that way -- moving the placement of even a comma will affect its tone.
   However, language isn't like that: even if you only drop a single piece of punctuation, that can impact the overall meaning of a sentence.
There are many ways of phrasing things that are, for all practical purposes, functionally equivalent.


I know what you're trying to say,

but you also gotta see that you just PROVED what I said: All these different ways ARE of subjectively different "quality"!

Hell these days even using a fucking em — dash will get people to pitchfork your ass!

Even a semicolon looks prissy


Eh, agree to disagree. Any of the alternative formulations wouldn't have changed your comment substantially.




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