Alright, another example of the misuse of the colon.
This was actually from an email job announcement I received several years ago
and I thought it was a bit funny, because they reversed what comes before and
after the colon.
The said in one project we have a nutritionist.
A psychologist, statisticians, a computer specialists,
and dietitians: a whole range of specialties.
Well, of course, it's backwards.
We want to set up the list with a colon and then have the list follow.
So the correct way of writing this would be,
in one project we have a whole range of specialties: a nutritionist,
a psychologist, statisticians, a computer specialist, and dietitians.
I think it's interesting that they have multiple statisticians and
multiple dietitians but only one of the each of the others.
I think this was a job advertisement for a statistician, actually.