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If a period is a full stop, is a semicolon a partial stop?
@peterdrake I've always understood it to be a way of separating two statements that are basically the same idea but where the second statement is a consequence of the first being known.
I googled it to ensure that I remembered correctly and I think I'm referring to rule 1a here: https://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/semicolons.asp
@peterdrake I think a semicolon would be the California stop, and the comma a speedbump. :)
... and is a comma a California stop?