Semicolon

[Sarah]

The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between partsor members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.

[Sarah]

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.

[Sarah]

A strange symbol who's origins are cloaked in mystery. It is believed to hold magical properties but it's true nature is still unknown mankind.

The world's top historians have found a link that connects the birthplace of all religions back to the semicolon. The earliest semicolon discovered, on Earth, dates back over 800 million years, according to paleontologists. However, images taken from the Mars Rover have also discovered several stone carvings of this mark.

To this date, the only use that scholars and scientists alike have been able to find for the semicolon is to combine it with other punctuation marks, like the closed parenthesis, sometimes separated by a hyphen.

[Sarah]

Microsoft Word seems to think that these should go in every sentence.

[Sarah]

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.

[Tina]

A punctuation mark (;) indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses, that is more pronounced than that indicated by a comma.

[Marquetta]

A sign used to display [you wont] [give up], often used with [anxiety] or depression

[Kit]

A [colon] that [winks] with its tail, this [glyph] (“;”) literally translates to “I went to college” and purports to conjoin two related independent clauses.