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I have grown fond of semicolons in these recent months. The semicolon tells you that there is still some question about the preceding full sentence; something needs to be added. It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you didn't get all the meaning you wanted or expected, anyway you got all the writer intended to parcel out and now you have move along, period. But with a semicolon there you get a pleasant little feeling of expectancy; there is more to come; read on; it will get clearer.

-- Letters to the Editor, Forbes Magazine