Help please? What does this mean??(=?

Question

call me stupid i dont care. But can someone help me?

what does this ; mean? i know its called a colon--im not sure if the spellings right--but thats how u say it almost. All i need to know is what does it mean and how do you use it. can anyone help me please? thanks. [=

Answer 1

; is a semicolon. : is a colon.

They're punctuation marks, they don't have meanings.

You use a semicolon when you're connecting two independent clauses. An independent clause is basically a complete sentence.

Above poster should be using a COLON and not a semicolon. Colons are for lists.

Answer 2

That ==> ; ?

like in the sentence:

the ingredients are ; tomatoes,mayonaise etc......

it is like to present many words in a line