• Jax@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Amusingly enough, one use case for em dashes is a pause where a comma would be too weak — refuting your assertion.

    Also, you used a hyphen.

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      1 day ago

      not actually a hyphen, a minus (not that this matters to me in the slightest)

      I’m sorry, but “the pause is too weak” sounds squarely in the area of faffery to me.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        24 hours ago

        hyphen and minus is the same punctuation symbol in different contexts, at least how most people, including you, signify the mathematical symbol.

        • hyphen: -
        • minus: -
        • en-dash: –
        • em-dash: —

        so… yeah. pretty clear it doesn’t matter to you since you speak authoritatively about it while being incorrect

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              17 hours ago

              it’s like being an atheist and therefore not caring about the details of transsubstantiation. irrelevance.

              • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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                15 hours ago

                it’s interesting you would phrase your simile like that because it seems much more like being an atheist and then having a strong opinion that the miracle of transubstantiation happens in the hindgut, even though no theology calls for that.

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        1 day ago

        It’s more along the lines of the comma is too weak for the pause. Likewise, there are places where the em dash is too strong for the pause.