I definitely need you to sell me on them, then, because there has never been a case where a semicolon was a vast improvement over rewriting the passage to eliminate the need for one in a first place. In the end it is really a matter of preference, but if I rarely—if ever, even—use them, and I put to you it would take contrivance to include them in my work. What, may I ask, is so appealing about them? Educate me! Show me I am missing something, and surely I may have some mercy for this wayward symbol.
