Those Godawful portents of doom. Ambiguous. And, I mean, come on. Do they really help a sentence flow? No, they make it just as choppy and awkward as if there were two. It can only be used like this; like this it can only be. No other way. Semicolons are the tenuous means to a definitive end. The comma is where it's at. Is it odd that I really am infatuated with commas?
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; eleventydoom I like semicolons, I think they're neat. But rarely used properly, which is frustrating.
They still use these in math, right? It's kind of like a question mark in Greek, too, I think. But I agree excessive use of semicolons is annoying; it's so decrepit.
I love using semi-colons. I use them rarely, but each time I do I feel satisfied with knowing I'm using them properly.:tongue:
Semicolons are awesome if you know how to use them properly! It's really annoying when people think they're interchangeable with commas...