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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

They can also be used as a super comma; because sometime you make a longer sentence, or a sentence with complex clauses.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

I'm sorry, but the example in your comment is nonstandard usage. The part after the semicolon would typically be an independent clause, whereas the "because" marks yours as a dependent clause.

There are still comma-like uses though. The major one I can think of is as a separator in a list where each element is long, possibly containing commas of its own.

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