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I use the hyphen a lot - I use it perhaps too much, in ways that aren't grammatically correct, but - I don't care. It really helps to moderate the intended tone, I find. Something that's increasingly important in today's world where more and more business and even communication is done on line. I considered using a hyphen there after 'find', by the way. Where you would use a period or a comma, or even nothing at all, you can instead use a hyphen - giving your written word the exact same kind of half pauses if you were using trying to be an effective communicator IRL. People are stupid, too, let's be honest - so hyphens help to kind of guide them through complex ideas or sentences. Run on sentences are bad but hyphens make them not run on, but not get broken up as much as with periods. A complex idea can be taken in as a whole while still maintaining its individual parts. I just sent a business email that had 12 hyphens in it. Honestly that might have been too many.
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I give this thread an A-
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Jan 28, 2022 23:23
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I've been on the internet since the late 90s and constant exposure to walls of text without any punctuation, has made me overly generous when it comes to using punctuation myself.
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Jan 28, 2022 23:27
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You mean an endash or an emdash, not a hyphen.
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Jan 28, 2022 23:31
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hyphen's good but not the best; semicolon rules the rest
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Jan 28, 2022 23:33
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I was actually just talking to someone about this, if you want to be fancy — use the em dash. Its a bit sexier and aesthetic. One of my design teachers really got horny for them. It's the only alt code I know off the top of my head: Alt+0151
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Jan 28, 2022 23:34
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I think the written word is where humanity went wrong so punctuation is bad imo.
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Jan 28, 2022 23:42
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I like to use them in my passwords. Really gives them a little air of class.
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Jan 28, 2022 23:43
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spacing in vienna posted:You mean an endash or an emdash, not a hyphen. They probly use spaces instead of tabs
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Jan 28, 2022 23:46
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Hyphen owns OP. Insanely good poo poo
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Jan 28, 2022 23:47
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This is totally inappropriate use of the hyphen and an insult to em dashes everywhere. How dare you. HOW DARE YOU
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Jan 28, 2022 23:54
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L-O-L
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Jan 29, 2022 00:05
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i will never use a hyphen!!!
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Jan 29, 2022 00:15
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BigHead posted:I give this thread an A- are you like a 4th grade teacher? 5th? gently caress yeah still got it
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Jan 29, 2022 00:16
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spacing in vienna posted:You mean an endash or an emdash, not a hyphen. All three of these are great and I love using them. I just love it.
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Jan 29, 2022 00:18
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i hate the hyphen and i will never use it drat the hyphenate
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Jan 29, 2022 00:18
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Xenocides posted:I think the written word is where humanity went wrong so punctuation is bad imo. Mods rename this fellow to Socrates
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Jan 29, 2022 00:26
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I feel the same... way about... ellipsis... Op.....
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Jan 29, 2022 00:58
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The feudal practice of using a space-less long hyphen to convey a pause—over the shorter hyphen - that's commonly present on keyboards, should be held on the same level of contempt in grammar court as the crime of doubling up the s-es at the end of possessives' apostrophes
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Jan 29, 2022 01:01
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cool grammar thread that i will not be participating in or making any comment on in any way
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Jan 29, 2022 01:05
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big hyphen keeping my buddy down
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Jan 29, 2022 01:07
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oh god, hyphens ARE the millennial ellipsis
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Jan 29, 2022 01:31
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they say there are only 26 letters in the alphabet but once you finally learn all of those there are suddenly all these puncuations to learn like a comma or a period or a hyphen or the long dork hyphen or even a question mark gently caress that
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Jan 29, 2022 02:33
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Sid Vicious posted:i hate the hyphen spell Spider-man!
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Jan 29, 2022 02:39
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It's the year 2022 and it is still impossible to put my legal last name into about 20% of online forms.
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Jan 29, 2022 02:41
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Hyphens are great if you want to create a distinct space between your sentences - however using an ellipses gets the same effect with added tension… see?
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Jan 29, 2022 02:43
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Smugworth posted:I feel the same... way about... ellipsis... Op..... It used to mean a break that you could ignore. Like when I was talking to my Uncle, and he told me about winter camping... Man he was cold that night. Now it just means...
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Jan 29, 2022 02:43
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Three Olives posted:It's the year 2022 and it is still impossible to put my legal last name into about 20% of online forms. What is your legal last name Three Olives?
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Jan 29, 2022 02:44
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:What is your legal last name Three Olives? Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie
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Jan 29, 2022 02:50
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Three Olives posted:Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie that's a mouthful. Why is it illegal. Not enough room on the ID?
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Jan 29, 2022 02:52
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Gas; thread.
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Jan 29, 2022 03:21
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Sometimes I likes to split a word just to see what happ- -ens
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Jan 29, 2022 03:29
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Hyphens are real cool, I use them too much in business emails I'm sure. The double dash is a good technique-- I like the way it looks, but most word processors and some web apps will convert that to a emdash Semicolon just feels so much more formal
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Jan 29, 2022 03:29
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CloFan posted:The double dash is a good technique-- I like the way it looks, 
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Jan 29, 2022 03:32
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I'm high on Fen-Phen bitch
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Jan 29, 2022 04:00
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlk7o5T56iw
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Jan 29, 2022 04:15
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Hyphens join words together, OP. What you're talking about is the double dash, or the em dash. It's properly used without spaces on either side.
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Jan 29, 2022 04:18
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Em dash stands for electro-magnetic dash
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Jan 29, 2022 04:22
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Uhhh pretty sure it stands for elon musk
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Spider-hyphen-man alt spotted
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