<p>So interesting, Lergnom!</p>
<p>(the thing I was mentioning is new-ish - it’s not in the canon of accepted puncuation possibilities. It’s the equivalent of colloquial speech. I was thinking maybe it had to do with emoticons: leaving a space so that the pictorial could happen, and people are just used to doing that now, even when there is no emoticon.)</p>
<p>Anyway, carry on…</p>