abramdemski comments on Punctuation & Quotation Conventions

[abramdemski]

As they said,

It isn’t magic. It’s witchcraft.

We shouldn’t forget that.

I’ve recently decided that colons can end a sentence. If I said

Here’s a picture:

[the picture]

then in my mind it is OK to not have a period anywhere. So, colons can apparently end sentences. Therefore, we can correct the earlier-quoted eample by changing the comma to a colon:

As they said:

It isn’t magic. It’s witchcraft.

We shouldn’t forget that.

I like this fine.