How to use a semicolon
Posted by staff / January 25, 2010Dubbed “the most feared punctuation on earth,” the semicolon can make even the highly skilled grammar goddesses shake with fear. Luckily, the Oatmeal has broken down the do and don’ts of semicolon usage in a way that’s far more fun than high school English class.
Check out the full graphic, grammar nerds.
(Via The Oatmeal)
Oh, to find a copy of the Dilbert cartoon in which they were trying to add another function to (or get rid of) a keyboard key, the solution was "We could get rid of the semi-colon; nobody uses them anyway." Such delicious irony!