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cm11
36 days ago
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Em dashes are amazing
—–—, I believe.
Timwi
35 days ago
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That depends. Your interpretation is “em+en+em”. But another, potentially wittier interpretation is “em in em”, i.e., you split an em-dash into two en-dashes and put an em-dash inside.
jerf
35 days ago
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Heh, thanks for the attempted recovery but I definitely meant the other way around.
cm11
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Nice, that's good.
jerf
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Oof, yes.
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