Timeline for Should I use a colon or semicolon?
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| Jul 13, 2020 at 0:03 | vote | accept | rosstex | ||
| Jul 25, 2014 at 4:48 | comment | added | Kris | "In your sentence, neither is really the case" In fact, it's both. (A 'list' can be a one-item-list or even a null-list.) See my comment at OP. | |
| Jul 24, 2014 at 10:55 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Edwin I’m sure in some cases it can; in this case, though, a colon to me would imply that it’s the entirety of the first sentence that would be enlargened by a colon, rather than just the subject of individual rights. | |
| Jul 24, 2014 at 10:53 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | The colon can equally be used to 'introduce' (though what goes before is usually at least as important) an enlargement, a further comment on the subject mentioned in the first part of the sentence. This works here, though I'd feel more comfortable with a dash too. | |
| Jul 24, 2014 at 8:56 | history | answered | Janus Bahs Jacquet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |