Whoa…I never thought as semicolons as rare in usage or erudite in nature, and most certainly not as a “pretentious anachronism,” as they are referred to in this New York Times article today, which has since sorted out my linguistic misperceptions; I’d like to think that my punctuation is up-to-date, hip, and relevant to today’s youth–I mean, anachronistic? Really?–but evidently I am a stodgy prescriptivist living in the grammatical past, mired in syntactic history, and increasingly alone in pretentious punctuating.