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Re:The Fall of Hacker Groups by jndsn402 on Thursday December 11, 2014 @02:00PM (#8736465)
> (largely uninformed: I welcome correction)

I like your use of colon rather than semicolon. Was that deliberate?

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Re:The Fall of Hacker Groups by escape_goat on Thursday December 11, 2014 @10:46PM (#8738478)
It's hard to describe it as deliberate. For me, punctuation is imagined in terms of vocal tone and pacing; it's very auditory. I listen to the sentence to make sure that I have phrased it correctly, and decide on that basis.
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