Timeline for Use of colon when addressing someone
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| Jul 17 at 11:02 | comment | added | Stuart F | In practice there's unlikely to be any ambiguity. Consider context like an email/text message saying "How is everyone getting to the meeting? I'm going to bring my car. David: what about you?" It's not a playscript, why would I be providing dialog for David? And you put David at the start because it's directed at him and you attract his attention first. I think people get a bit prissy about non-standard punctuation and try and find things to make it seem wrong. | |
| Jul 16, 2012 at 4:36 | comment | added | Chiara Coetzee | +1 to this comment for explaining the potential confusion resulting from the colon. | |
| Jul 16, 2012 at 3:29 | comment | added | Ray | The example of putting "David" at the end of the sentence makes sense! | |
| Jul 16, 2012 at 1:50 | history | answered | user21497 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |