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A colon that winks with its tail, this glyph (“;”) literally translates to “I went to college” and purports to conjoin two related independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
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.
Programmer: I wrote a program to find the answer to life, the universe, and everything and I left out a semicolon! Fjsk!
Microsoft Word seems to think that these should go in every sentence.
What you mean to say:
"I went to the mall, however I got lost, and I had to hitch a ride with my friend, Alan, who likes semicolons. The bastard."
What Microsoft Word says:
"I went to the mall; however, I got lost; I had to hitch a ride with my friend; Alan; he likes semicolons; the bastard.
The character ";" that you probably never use. It's used to fix comma splicing by separating two independent clauses while still including them in the same sentence. For example:
"I watch My Little Pony, Fluttershy is my favorite character."
can be corrected to
"I watch My Little Pony; Fluttershy is my favorite character."
People also use them in an attempt to sound smart when writing; almost in a condescending way; even if they don't know what they mean; and they never seen to realize how fabricated their writing looks with all the semicolons; and they probably started abusing them after reading classical novels."
English Teacher: "Well done on your 40 billionth argumentative essay, Harold. If I were you, I would put a semicolon there."
Harold: "What the snot is a semicolon?"
that useless punctuation mark that always gets in the way when you try to put a colon 'cause you forgot to hit the shift key.
*groceries; milk, eggs, cantaloupe...*
guy typing list; "oh, shit, that wasnt supposed to be a semicolon."
The most pretentious of all punctuation.
Not everyone knows how to use a semicolon correctly; my farts must smell like sweet perfume.
The remaining part of a colon (large intestine) after part is removed (usually because of cancers, tumors and cysts).
Well, Grandpa has a semicolon now, so he has to use a colostomy bag.