The word "muchly"
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I'm perfectly fine with pretty loosey-goosey interpretations of when to use semi-colons. I realize that there is a specific use-case, but in reality it's just used for the most part as a sort of elongated comma; where the intention in the writing is to have a longer pause than a normal comma would.
And I'm absolutely fine with that. No one is really clear on the real semi-colon usage anyway. I'm relatively sure that the last sentance in the previous paragraph is the actual correct usage technically, but who knows? And more importantly, who cares?
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