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Colons are fine because they represent a stop, the same as an m-dash. I would hesitate to use a semi-colon in dialogue because to me it's a bookish piece of punctuation. It gives the reader a visua...
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2019-12-13T12:00:31Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T04:42:02Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Colons are fine because they represent a stop, the same as an m-dash. I would hesitate to use a semi-colon in dialogue because to me it's a bookish piece of punctuation. It gives the reader a _visual_ guide that two indepdendent clauses are connected. (I would never, however, use a comma splice instead.)
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2015-10-13T10:06:15Z (about 9 years ago)
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