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minus-squareTomasEkeli@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoem dashes are typographical faffery and have always been (in my opinion) a marker of writers who take themselves, and the surface level of their style, far too serious. just use commas, my friend
minus-squareThe Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoem dashes, en dashes, and commas have different meanings and uses
minus-squareTomasEkeli@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoaren’t all of them “do a short pause”?
minus-squareThe Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agono. comma: do a short pause hyphen: connect two related concept words to loosely create a new word en dash: signify a range em dash: do an abrupt, possibly long, pause or signify an attribution ellipses: do a trailing, possibly long, pause
em dashes are typographical faffery and have always been (in my opinion) a marker of writers who take themselves, and the surface level of their style, far too serious.
just use commas, my friend
em dashes, en dashes, and commas have different meanings and uses
aren’t all of them “do a short pause”?
no.