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The Walrus: Jul 9, 2002

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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# ? May 27, 2022 21:02

BigHead: Jul 25, 2003; Huh?; Nap Ghost

I give this thread an A-

# ? Jan 28, 2022 22:23

Yaldabaoth: Oct 9, 2012; I MISSED YOUR OLD AV BECAUSE IT WAS FIT SOOOOOOOO WELL.

YOU POST LIKE A DRUNK JORDAN PETERSON THAT LOOKS LIKE HE'S MELTING UNDER THE STRAIN OF ALL OF GBS TELLING HIM TO GET FUCKED.

IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL TO BE THIS BAD AT POSTING

FURTHERMORE I

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.

# ? Jan 28, 2022 22:27

spacing in vienna: Jan 4, 2007; people they want us to fall down
but we won't ever touch the ground
we're perfectly balanced, we float around
til no one is here, do you hear the sound?; Lipstick Apathy

You mean an endash or an emdash, not a hyphen.

# ? Jan 28, 2022 22:31

Mozi: Apr 4, 2004; Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die; Nap Ghost

hyphen's good but not the best; semicolon rules the rest

# ? Jan 28, 2022 22:33

Uriah Heep: Apr 28, 2010; im having a bit of an existential crisis here guys

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

# ? Jan 28, 2022 22:34

Xenocides: Jan 14, 2008; This world looks very scary....

I think the written word is where humanity went wrong so punctuation is bad imo.

# ? Jan 28, 2022 22:42

cult_hero: Jul 10, 2001

I like to use them in my passwords. Really gives them a little air of class.

# ? Jan 28, 2022 22:43

signalnoise: Mar 7, 2008; i was told my old av was distracting

spacing in vienna posted:

You mean an endash or an emdash, not a hyphen.

They probly use spaces instead of tabs

# ? Jan 28, 2022 22:46

mkvltra: Nov 1, 2020

Hyphen owns OP. Insanely good poo poo

# ? Jan 28, 2022 22:47

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005

This is totally inappropriate use of the hyphen and an insult to em dashes everywhere. How dare you. HOW DARE YOU

# ? Jan 28, 2022 22:54

Jesustheastronaut!: Mar 9, 2014; Lipstick Apathy

L-O-L

# ? Jan 28, 2022 23:05

Sid Vicious: Jan 1, 1970

i will never use a hyphen!!!

# ? Jan 28, 2022 23:15

The Walrus: Jul 9, 2002

BigHead posted:

I give this thread an A-

are you like a 4th grade teacher? 5th?

gently caress yeah still got it

# ? Jan 28, 2022 23:16

mom and dad fight a lot: Sep 21, 2006; The right wing has been freaking out about Trudeau ever since he ran in 2015. First they freaked out about his hair and now they want to fuck him.

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.

# ? Jan 28, 2022 23:18

Sid Vicious: Jan 1, 1970

i hate the hyphen
and i will never use it
drat the hyphenate

# ? Jan 28, 2022 23:18

Weka: May 5, 2019

Xenocides posted:

I think the written word is where humanity went wrong so punctuation is bad imo.

Mods rename this fellow to Socrates

# ? Jan 28, 2022 23:26

Smugworth: Apr 18, 2003; Well, I've got brain damage on the side of my brain, and I don't know which side, left or right, where I huffed gasoline for ten long years.

I feel the same... way about... ellipsis... Op.....

# ? Jan 28, 2022 23:58

EVERY TIME GOING: Mar 17, 2006; cant stop wont stop

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

# ? Jan 29, 2022 00:01

hot cocoa on the couch: Dec 8, 2009

cool grammar thread that i will not be participating in or making any comment on in any way

# ? Jan 29, 2022 00:05

Sid Vicious: Jan 1, 1970

big hyphen keeping my buddy down

# ? Jan 29, 2022 00:07

The Walrus: Jul 9, 2002

oh god, hyphens ARE the millennial ellipsis

# ? Jan 29, 2022 00:31

appropriatemetaphor: Jan 26, 2006

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

# ? Jan 29, 2022 01:33

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Also, Lithuania is not a Baltic state

(Lithuania is an error of History); Nap Ghost

Sid Vicious posted:

i hate the hyphen
and i will never use it
drat the hyphenate

spell Spider-man!

# ? Jan 29, 2022 01:39

Three Olives: Apr 10, 2005; I just wonder what the First Lady's boobs are up to!

It's the year 2022 and it is still impossible to put my legal last name into about 20% of online forms.

# ? Jan 29, 2022 01:41

CareyB: Feb 28, 2004; Yam Slacker

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?

# ? Jan 29, 2022 01:43

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Also, Lithuania is not a Baltic state

(Lithuania is an error of History); Nap Ghost

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...

# ? Jan 29, 2022 01:43

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Also, Lithuania is not a Baltic state

(Lithuania is an error of History); Nap Ghost

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?

# ? Jan 29, 2022 01:44

Three Olives: Apr 10, 2005; I just wonder what the First Lady's boobs are up to!

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

What is your legal last name Three Olives?

Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie

# ? Jan 29, 2022 01:50

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Also, Lithuania is not a Baltic state

(Lithuania is an error of History); Nap Ghost

Three Olives posted:

Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie

that's a mouthful. Why is it illegal. Not enough room on the ID?

# ? Jan 29, 2022 01:52

Xaintrailles: Aug 14, 2015

Gas; thread.

# ? Jan 29, 2022 02:21

Colonel Cancer: Sep 26, 2015; Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Sometimes I likes to split a word just to see what happ-

-ens

# ? Jan 29, 2022 02:29

CloFan: Nov 5, 2004

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

# ? Jan 29, 2022 02:29