The semicolon is a useless punctuation mark.

[TheMightyFavog]

Let's get rid of it. Nobody knows how to use the thing anyway.

[idgiehkt]

1. I think you mean

Let's get rid of it; nobody knows how to use the thing anyway.

:shrug:

[eppur_se_muova]

2. That would be the end of all C programs.

Reminds me of a 'Dilbert' cartoon: The pointy-haired boss says "You use too many semicolons" as criticism of Dilbert's programming style.

[TheMightyFavog]

5. Well, programming excepted...

End of Line.

[ZombieNixon]

6. *ahem* I think you mean...

cout << "Well, programming excepted..." << endl;

:P

[Jimbo S]

14. or pascal

writeln;

[newsdude]

3. Try writing an obituary without one ...

eom

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Ah, just leave out the survivors

Nobody cares. :silly:



Especially when they want all the aunts and uncles and cousins and in-laws and "close friends" and the goddamned dog.

:grr:

[Hugin]

4. It makes a great insult...

SEMICOLON!

[Crabby Appleton]

7. sometimes you don't want to use a full colon; then use semi.

[Critters2]

8. I've been spending too much time in hospitals, apparently.

All kinds of ostomy remarks keep coming to mind.

[Evoman]

9. I hate apostrophe's.

Its' not that I d'ont know how to use them, its' just that I think theyre dumb.

[Little Wing]

11. Let's teach the correct way to use commas first

Scan through some subject lines, it's atrocious what goes on here.

[LaraMN]

12. But it's damn sexy!

;;;;;;;

hubba hubba.
:P

[Robb]

13. I prefer the more masculine emdash

A bold, penetrating piece of punctuation, thrusting itself into a sentence to indicate a break in thought or sentence structure, to introduce a phrase added for emphasis, definition, or explanation, or to separate two clauses.

Teh sexx, that is. :D

[montanto]

15. The semi-colon is a very useful punctuation mark; however,

it is largely misunderstood.

[eppur_se_muova]

16. Here's a use ;^)

:)

[babydollhead]

17. my dead brother-in-law

used ; as a nickname during his fight and loss to colon cancer. gallows humor. now, it's just a period. .

[qnr]

18. Well, I use it all the time in Modula-2 - however, it does kinda remind me of an

old Ronald Reagan joke....