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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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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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oh god, hyphens ARE the millennial ellipsis
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Devils Affricate posted: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. No and no it isnt. Also agreed you canot use semicolons at all ever. Or say whom, even if you perfectly know how to use both.
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how do you use a ~ in a sentence? teach me your ways
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