To all authors and my students: When to use a hyphen and its elongated relatives: http://nyr.kr/1TlD3A4 via @NewYorker #sciencewritingtip
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@NewYorker@MaryNorrisTNY Finished reading the book. Mary is the most brutally sophisticated proofreader I've known.pic.twitter.com/dtxsVFD1xX
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@NewYorker@tjoselow@MaryNorrisTNY Needed that!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NewYorker@MaryNorrisTNY rules are made to be broken :) especially for the#emdash obsessed...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NewYorker@MaryNorrisTNY thank you! The Punctuation Princess!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NewYorker@MaryNorrisTNY The hyphen breaks up the line, not the sentence! Oops!
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@NewYorker isn't an en dash more like indicating a range, so 6:30-7:30 (if you imagine the hyphen is an en dash, typing on a phone here!)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NewYorker@MaryNorrisTNY After fifteen years of TEACHING the language, I finally got it. Thank you.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NewYorker@MaryNorrisTNY Nice to hear from old Grammar Necessity againThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NewYorker@MaryNorrisTNY Well, this was exciting - had me focused, and perhaps in-tuned for the first time; I definitely learned something.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NewYorker@MaryNorrisTNY Thanks! I wish my
keyboard had em & en dashes. But more importantly, where did you get that enormous pencil???Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NewYorker@pageturner@MaryNorrisTNY Wonder if the hyphen isn't a little envious of the comma's curves. Rail thin after it ate everythingThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NewYorker@MaryNorrisTNY People haven't a clue about hyphen or dash, let alone m-dash or n-dash! It's all a dash to them! separate/connectThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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