Why “semicolon”?

Why is my website called “semicolon”?

ˈsemēˌkōlən | noun

a punctuation mark (;) indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses, that is more pronounced than that indicated by a comma.

Because I drink my coffee out of a mug like this and content folks are over-thinkers. I can’t be the only one who pauses when I see this mark.

And, I bet you didn’t know that there’s a raging debate (about 2.9 million results) among word nerds concerning the use of semicolons in writing.

Let me overthink, so you don’t have to.