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What I found was a bunch of occurrences '...' without a hyphen, which I assumed indicated the general trend, but on further searching I see that it is as you say. Nonetheless, if I may still ask, why?

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(I am in the end unsure about your question, but will try to answer it, if, by asking, you mean my general use of ".-"?

I nonetheless appreciate your curiosity).-

> … if, by asking, you mean my general use of ".-"?

Yup, that's what I mean.

It is something of a mark of style - which, since you kindly ask - I inherited from my father, and I use as a sort of homage.-

PS. It has also, countless times, saved me when I "retroactively" needed to claim authorship of something I had writen, by pointing it out. Most people either don't notice or do and don't say ...

Thank you—a nice and subtle homage.

I think it is. Also, as best I can, with my life - as do we all, don't we? Trying to be worthy of having been put here by those that came before us ...

Thanks for your attention to detail and the opportunity to converse.-

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