Sometimes I think I'm not super American, and then my writing style gives it away.

New clause? Comma.
Side tangent? Comma.
Context? Comma.
New main clause? Comma.
New sentence? ...comma.

What the hell is a semicolon.

@justsoup semicolons are things you use to delimit instructions in C

Example:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  int i = 27;
  printf("hi");
  return 3+i;
}

@justsoup they were designed specifically only for the C programming language, and later other programming languages started using them as well.

@fun @justsoup

"Hmmm... Which character does no one use, that I could require at the end of every line, just to annoy folks who use my new language?" - Dennis Ritchie, maybe

@craftyguy @justsoup the semi-colon was specifically invented by Thompson and Ritchie for the C programming language, everyone knows that :D