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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (James H. Andrews)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Hemi-demi-semi-colons
Message-ID: <1114@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 14:30:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.1114
Posted: Wed Jun 19 14:30:15 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Jun-85 17:41:47 EDT
References: <1049@mnetor.UUCP>
Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (James H. Andrews)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Summary: Colonisation (vt): the addition of :'s to news articles

In article <1049@mnetor.UUCP> sophie@mnetor.UUCP writes:
>                                             ...  Some of these were just
>as badly managed before colons even settled in, so colonisation cannot even
>always be blamed for setting a precedent of corrupt management...

Is this a reference to these kind of colons : : : :
or the semi kind                            ; ; ; ;
or people with intestinal fortitude
or just the pain-in-the-* European settlers?  :-)
                                     --Jamie.