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Semicolons bring the drama; that's why I love them (www.ft.com)
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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Archive link.

While descriptively the decreasing occurrence is noteworthy... prescriptively, well, it's just a punctuation mark. If you're writing it's just yet another tool at your disposal. It deserves neither the blah blah praise of the author, nor the assumptions Kurt von Yoghurt vomits.