Re:Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and ...
by 83457 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @11:47AM
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I just use commas or parens.
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Re:Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and ...
by jameshart on Sunday March 12, 2023 @12:03PM
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Having multiple options for how to offset parenthetical asides, far from being redundant (or even confusing), offers us—as writers and readers—more opportunities to express the tonal variations (or nuances) that we would – in spoken language – communicate through our voice and body language; moreover it lets us vary the visual, aesthetic quality of our prose – which is as much a part of the experience of reading as comprehension is.
Re:Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and ...
by wholinator2 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @12:16PM
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Is this a written excerpt from a text book or something? This single sentence makes more sense than many of the arguments I've seen previously.