Well, "true" is not the right word. It certainly wouldn't be natural.Do you mean if I say "Five things people feel very much emotion for:-...." it won't be true?
They taught me that in primary school 80 years ago, Ted. We used to call it ‘two dots and a dash’.The semi-colon is not used for that purpose. I would replace it with ":-".
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