• dustycups@aussie.zone
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    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.

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      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.