Noktalı virgül yeryüzünde en çok korkulan noktalama işaretidir.
- The semicolon is the most feared punctuation on earth.
Benim dilimde , virgül, ; noktalı virgül, : iki nokta üstüste, ... üç nokta şeklinde adlandırılır ve bu cümle bir noktayla biter.
- In my language, the , is called comma, the ; is called semicolon, : is called colon, ... are called ellipsis, and this sentence ends with a period.
A semicolon is followed by an initial lower-case letter (unless for proper nouns).