• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    They’re pedophile hunters in the same way Saul Goodman is a criminal lawyer.

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      10 hours ago

      I feel like there should be some sort of obscure punctuation to make this clear: A hunter who is a pedophile or a hunter of pedophiles.
      Maybe a semi-comma or something.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        7 hours ago

        semi-comma

        Would a semi-comma be a space in the same sense that a semicolon is just before colon?

        In 1644, in Richard Hodges’ The English Primrose, it is written:

        At a comma, stop a little; […] At a semi-colon, somewhat more; […] At a colon, a little more than the former; […] At a period, make a full stop;

        Source.