Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
by miltonlost on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:37PM
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Length of breath/pause with a longer dash.
Read some -- Emily Dickinson poems – you'll find a world ––– of meaning ––– in the millimeter.
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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
by theelous3 on Thursday March 27, 2025 @07:10PM
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I have read her in the past and can't say there were world's of meaning between -'s. Can you link an example? I looked again and couldn't see any obvious ones. Generally she just completely abused the -. Does she even use a comma once? lol
Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
by efilife on Thursday March 27, 2025 @07:38PM
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worlds. world's would indicate that a world owns something.
Also, you can just write -s instead of -'s as the apostrophe indicates possession
Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
by pc86 on Friday March 28, 2025 @10:38AM
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Exactly the type of comment I'd expect to see on an HN discussion about different types of dashes.
Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
by handoflixue on Friday March 28, 2025 @12:19AM
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Poetry routines breaks grammar rules. A lot of poems rely on very specific white space layouts that you'd never see in writing.
And your example shows how you can just use multiple dashes instead of having three different ones.