The semicolon is for when you've reached the end of you're sentence but you want to keep talking; it has to be another sentence and another but would have just looked silly there. I see no reason to overuse the semicolon; they're to be used sparingly. I think the semicolon may be my favorite punctuation mark but I do also love the txt emoticons and the £unn¥ 3Rit!ng where you try to use numbers and symbols for letters; it's hard to say which of the three i like better. I was driving and I saw freon r134a on an autozone sign and I spent a minute trying to read it before it dawned on me.

I can't never just not say nothing so I'll just quote dad, "It's a problem when I think that what I'm trying to say is more important than how it's being heard."