@Meaningness at least you were sensible enough to use an EM dash
In this century, we use a dash in place of the obsolete semicolon—it looks sleek and informal.
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@postreptilian Um, yes, well, that’s my secret vice. I do have strong opinions about which dash is which. - 3 more replies
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@Meaningness I like semicolons! I use paired dashes to set off a remark that I want to make a little louder than parenthetical. -
@St_Rev Liking semicolons is a shameful vice. Do your best to eradicate or at least hide it. - 3 more replies
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@muflax@Meaningness What's worst of all are people who use commas where they should use colons or semicolons. >:-[ -
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@DuncanBarford Interesting, thanks, I didn't know that.
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@Meaningness @DuncanBarford Hate the unspaced dash! But - in this age of Americanisation and twitter-compression—suspect it will win.
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@muflax I know! I can't paste text into my MUD without all the matching quotes vanishing. Zalgotext just looks like little square boxes.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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