What Does a Semicolon Tattoo Mean? … “A semicolon represents a sentence the author could’ve ended but chose not to,” reads the organization’s slogan often seen on their Instagram page. “The author is you and the sentence is your life.”
Likewise, people ask, are semicolon tattoos cliche?
Yes. Another one. It has become a cliche, a bore, a drill for us. We joke about the predictability and lament the fact that people can’t seem to come up with a more original symbol for suicide awareness — maybe, we hope, one that would be more interesting to tattoo.
Thereof, what is the semicolon symbol used for?
The semicolon or semi-colon ; is a symbol commonly used as orthographic punctuation. In the English language, a semicolon is most commonly used to link (in a single sentence) two independent clauses that are closely related in thought.