Originally posted by Scribble
52,000: Piggle Humsy - Jun 23rd, 2006
Originally posted by Piggle HumsyA dash would be better, though. mhmm Mis-use of hyphens is one of my few pet peeves with grammar/punctuations, mainly because barely anyone does it right, ever. Which kind of makes sense, because getting dashes is a bit awkward on any keyboard.
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They're my baes awehuhs
Originally posted by Scribble
I generally favour the n-dash but in my fiction writing I tend to go for the m-dash. Purely for aesthetic reasons. N-dash all the way for anything other than fiction, though.n m
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Same. I favour the n dash but in emails I use the m dash for aesthetic reasons, it is just more pleasing to the eye hmm
I look back at stuff I've written from a few years back and I'm like ****ing hell AJ get your shit together. 'Who's' when it should have been 'whose'? 'It's' when it should have been 'its'? Random semi-colons that serve no function?
Thankfully I turned to Jesus and he delivered me from grammar-based sin
Originally posted by Piggle HumsyI feel it awecool
Same. I favour the n dash but in emails I use the m dash for aesthetic reasons, it is just more pleasing to the eye hmm
Do you use macs generally? I can't believe how much easier it is getting dashes on a mac, after all of those years of hammering out the num-lock code on a PC keyboard it's a dream awehuhs