My sophomore English teacher was out for a couple of weeks after having part of his colon removed. You bet your ass the get-well card was replete with semicolons.

I'll definitely give them a try for emphasis: emphasis.

What are your thoughts on semi-colons? Not the ideal for organs, I'm sure, but for punctuation... ?

Em and en dashes deserve more general appreciation too, although it seems more of a typographer thing when a hyphens or parenthesis gets the job done but I always forget to close my parenthesis... I know mac makes it easy to type but windows is cumbersome.

I'm really tired of reading laws and see how the legislator doesn't know that colons are a thing. And I have to add those colons wherever it's necessary so I can read and study them in an appropriate way.

This is an excellent post, thank you for blessing my feed with this discourse- I also really like using dashes!

Semicolons, dashes, commas, and colons are all great for breaking up and organizing words without implying to total pause that a period would. I find them perhaps especially useful since I write like I speak, making conveying cadence or pauses to break up run-on sentences particularly important for clarity