Repair four colons the em-dash pass left mid-clause - #41
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Reviewed all 953 replacements from the em-dash removal. The commas, hyphens and parentheses are sound. A colon opens a list or an explanation, so the ones that broke are those followed by a word that continues the clause instead. Four here, all now commas. The rest of the colons on this site introduce an explanation and are correct as they stand.
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Reviewed all 953 replacements from the em-dash removal. The commas, hyphens and parentheses are sound. A colon opens a list or an explanation, so the ones that broke are those followed by a word that continues the clause instead. Four here, all now commas. The rest of the colons on this site introduce an explanation and are correct as they stand.
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What
A review of all 953 replacements made by the em-dash removal across both sites.
The breakdown: 408 became commas, 325 colons, 70 hyphens, 50 pairs of
parentheses, 46 a word, 3 a full stop, and 1 was deleted.
The commas, hyphens and parentheses are mechanical and read correctly. The
colons are where the damage is, because a colon opens a list or an explanation
and cannot introduce a clause that continues with a conjunction or preposition.
Four such cases survive on this site:
de/mittelstand-ai: "ist ein Burggraben**:** aber nur, wenn"en/tobiboard-vs-gboard: "a provider you chose**:** not to me"laingtutor/privacy: "or from a web link**:** and it returns"kairos/privacy: "controller in Germany (EU): not on a third-party cloud"All four are now commas.
Left alone deliberately
de/meeting-assistant-technicalreads "Protokolle mache**:** mit Whisper,Claude und n8n". That is a post title and a colon before a subtitle is correct.
Every other colon on this site introduces an explanation or a list, which is
what a colon is for. Two were already repaired in an earlier PR today.
Test plan
pnpm buildpasses, 82 pagespnpm check:spacingpasses