[Does so]

Is this for real? The photo kind of screams “Photoshop.”

My first thought.

However, assuming it is real, they have better English punctuation skills than most college students. (Note the correct usage of the semicolon!)

Shouldn't that be a colon? A semi-colon would have a word or two—with a comma following it.

It should be a colon; however, I could be wrong!

;)

[rlmorel]

Hahah...it is kind of interesting to have a grammar discussion on FR that isn’t directed at a poster who irritated someone else!

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Interesting. I was taught that the difference between a colon and a semicolon in a sentence was that a colon inferred the thought of “therefore,” or that the second thing necessarily followed the first. A colon is also used to preface a list (which is sort of the same idea). A semicolon, however, is more of a replacement for the word “and.” Many people mistakenly use a comma splice (a comma used instead of the word “and”) when what they really need is a semicolon.