User blog comment:The Crimson Eagle/72/@comment-5388838-20120621153030/@comment-1889286-20120627145641

Yes you did; semi-colons are used when you merge two sentences together to make one.

For example, that last sentence could have looked like this:

"Yes you did. Semi-colons are used when you merge two sentences together to make one." However, I still misuse it sometimes, it's an awkward piece of grammar.