“ New York City Transit’s unintended agenda notwithstanding, e-mail messages and text-messaging may jeopardize the last vestiges of semicolons. They still live on, though, in emoticons, those graphic emblems of our grins, grimaces and other facial expressions. The semicolon, befittingly, symbolizes a wink.
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Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location - NYTimes.com
A whole article on semicolons. Bless you, NYTimes. It should be noted that I found this article while searching NYTimes for sources to use in a linguistics paper.
