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:#emdash:

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:#emdashpat:

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zoz

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zle

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zozzle

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I'm about to use the CURVED dash!

"Watch out everybody!"

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I did it 😎!

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sempai~~

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desu~

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This activates my yellow fever~

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(΄◞ิ۝◟ิ‵) ~ ᗡლ==8

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I love em dashes so fricking much bros

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Endash bros stay losing lol used only for date ranges hahahhaa what fricking losers keep yourselves safe hhahhahhahaha


Don't forget to turn off signatures in settings!

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I love dashes but I also love semi colons. I feel conflicted, author bros.

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Semicolons are only fun to use intentionally improperly and then wait for the reaction

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Use em-dashes—my favorite dash—like this; semi-colons like this.

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Yuck, my least favourite dash—only used by philistines and Untermensch—the em-dash; a good semi-colon beats it any day.

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I used semicolons often before, but have since abandoned them. A period does the same job, looks better, and is less pretentious. I've kept the em dash though.

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Counterpoint; periods are for strags

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A period or a colon is good enough for straggots

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>versality

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The example sentence should use a semicolon tho. Dashes are good for sudden, violent interruptions - they jump at the reader. Semicolons let you join together related thoughts; these clauses might otherwise form different sentences.

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:marseynotes:

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Why the long one though, the short one looks better.

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No it doesnt. It only works as conjoining words, not phrases.

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Wrong.

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Can it hyphen-let

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Oft-forgotten, hyphens join words. En dashes give ranges—pp 14–88, for example—while em dashes offset interruptions or asides.

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Not sure what an em dash is but I believe I use them a lot.


Follower of Christ :marseyandjesus: Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.

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It's a dash that is the same width as an uppercase M. An en dash being the same width as an N.

Only exceptional individuals tend to use em-dashes due to the sheer size. Takes a lot of balls.

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I use em dashes a lot but my copyeditors—losers all—remove them.

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I’ll keep this in mind —


Follower of Christ :marseyandjesus: Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.

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*mind~

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I am guilty of using dashes a bunch - just go through my comment history.

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what the heck is an em dash

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>Not knowing about en dash - or em dash —

NG—MI

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no one in the history of the world has ever said en dash or em dash until THIS THREAD

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Lmao, read an editioral styleguide, bigot. It's not my job to educate you.

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Never read them. :marseyretardchad:

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Seriously wtf are these people talking about

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An em dash is a versatile punctuation which unites two very similar sentences without using a full period between them—you can even change the subject entirely.

You can even use it for parenthetical interjection—some find it a better emphasis than distracting like parentheses—among other uses.

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People hate simplicity. It's why "ain't" and "y'all" were denigrated for most of my life.

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I noticed too many of my sentences are two thoughts with a conjunction+comma between them, so I started using em dashes a lot more.

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I like the curly one because it’s cute ~

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That settles it. Don't try to hide behind principle or even your own pathetic cowardice as an excuse anymore.

You're just an evil motherlover.

Hope the pibbles get you eventually.

Or you finally realize that, yes, you DO take pleasure in causing animals pain, and in a brief moment of lucidity you relieve us of your existence with a shotgun.

Your body would be more useful to society as dog food than in it's current state.

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:!marseyno:

:!marseyyes:

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