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It's a poor mind that can only conceive of two uses for a punctuation mark. Sure, those are the two conventional uses for semicolons, but it's far from all the ways a semicolon can be used. Try combining it with reported speech; consider deploying it in lists which don't contain commas (like this one); use it to jam together sentence fragments in poetry; use it to notate interruption in a screenplay; use it to make your smileys wink ;)...


Conventional uses was all I was speaking to. Clarification of that fact omitted for brevity.




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