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December 21st, 2007 at 7:05 am
love the em-dash, so satisfying.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:16 am
I strongly prefer the en dash. Ranges are more profound than parenthetical thought.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
So, does that make a non-breakable space a restraining order?
April 12th, 2008 at 9:16 am
I prefer the long line of the em-dash, but find most people mistake it for its bastard cousin, the en-dash.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Em dash. They’re really not about diplomacy as much as they are about dividing the world into this and that. I think we need punctuation that looks for long-term solutions to typographic problems rather just breaking up the fray. En dash. Now there’s a peacemaker.
April 18th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Em-dashes all the way. No space-hyphen-space, no space-en-dash-space. Hyphen-hyphen if trapped in ASCII hell. Shout-outs to my peops in the ampersand octothorpe 151 semicolon!
June 19th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Who are you people? are you all English majors?
I’m scared, please hold me.
September 16th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Come on an En dash is for hyphenating and an Em dash should be used to separate parts of sentence.
May 20th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Great blog