The Semicolon

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It's not quite a comma, not quite a colon ... Kurt Vonnegut (a favorite of mine) said in A Man Without a Country that the semicolon is pretentious and only good for demonstrating that the writer went to college. (He is not alone in this opinion in the literary world.)

And yet the American Copy Editors Society, of which I used to be a member, gave props to the semicolon for National Punctuation Day last week, which no longer being in ACES, I totally missed! Check out the very nerd-cool site for the "holiday" here.

I tend to favor the dash over the semicolon. What do you think?