A colon that winks with its tail, this glyph (“;”) literally translates to “I went to college” and purports to conjoin two related independent clauses.
A programmer's bane. Required by most programming langauges to seperate commands. The semicolon will usually render an entire program useless and force the programmer to search every line for that goddamn semicolon.
A type of punctuation most commonly used to separate related independent clauses. They're underused by the majority of the population; however, they are quite helpful and can be very versatile when implemented by a skilled writer.
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