Semicolon Edit Meaning

1.

A programmer's bane. Required by most programming langauges to seperate commands. The semicolon will usually render an entire program useless and force the programmer to search every line for that goddamn semicolon.

Programmer: I wrote a program to find the answer to life, the universe, and everything and I left out a semicolon! Fjsk!

2.

Microsoft Word seems to think that these should go in every sentence.

What you mean to say:

"I went to the mall, however I got lost, and I had to hitch a ride with my friend, Alan, who likes semicolons. The bastard."

What Microsoft Word says:

"I went to the mall; however, I got lost; I had to hitch a ride with my friend; Alan; he likes semicolons; the bastard.

See spellcheck, colon, punctuation, irritating

3.

that useless punctuation mark that always gets in the way when you try to put a colon 'cause you forgot to hit the shift key.

*groceries; milk, eggs, cantaloupe...*

guy typing list; "oh, shit, that wasnt supposed to be a semicolon."

See colon, shift, shift key, stupid, accident

4.

The most pretentious of all punctuation.

Not everyone knows how to use a semicolon correctly; my farts must smell like sweet perfume.

See snotty, punctuation, grammer, smartass, pretentious

5.

The remaining part of a colon (large intestine) after part is removed (usually because of cancers, tumors and cysts).

Well, Grandpa has a semicolon now, so he has to use a colostomy bag.