Yeah, but how many of us even know what the heck a "clause" is anymore?
H.L. Mencken was an excellent semicolon user. If folks would read one of his collections, they would learn how to use a semicolon by osmosis, even without being able to explain the rule.
Clausery:
it has a subject and a verb!
Phrasery:
going at it the hard way, with no main verb or subject!
Dependent clausery:
Which you discover,
Because it needs more
If something is missing,
I did this too many years. I can correct all the grammar in a long work and have no idea of what it says.
All your commas are belong to us!