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Date: 2012-01-20 03:40 pm (UTC)
Some grammarians say that you should always follow a semicolon with what Wikipedia calls a transitional phrase or conjunctive adverb. That's what I was taught in high school. According to that standard, replacing a comma in a comma splice with a bare semicolon would still be improper. That said, I think that most people reject that standard, including various people who hold themselves out as authoritative prescriptive grammarians.
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