Dashes—how to use them

Craft clearer sentences with this grammar guide: learn when to use hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes correctly for ranges, breaks, and emphasis in writing.

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I Miss Using Em Dashes – Michael Bassili

I really miss using em dashes in my writing. Ever since content creators started using ChatGPT to help (or supplement) their writing, em dashes have become indicators of AI use. Students are routinely caught with their pants down as professors flag an essay as AI-generated based on the presence of lists, positive-leaning prose, and em dashes.

How to Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–) , and Hyphens (-)

Be dashing—and do it well

I’m with #JohnGreen on this one: I love the correct use of dashes—whether en- or em-sized. In fact I had committed to memory the correct keystrokes in both #Linux and #macOS to enter either:

Linux:
en dash: ⎄ + - + - + .
em dash: ⎄ + - + - + -

macOS:
en dash: ⌥ + -
em dash: ⌥ + ⇧ + -

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Dashes

Do you know the difference between a ‘hyphen’, an ‘en dash’ and an ’em dash’? Many people have never heard of ‘en’ and ’em dashes’ but al…

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Word Search Puzzle 237

Word List : #dashes #hovel #solar #conduced #agalena #kreuzers #delimed #autor #bullwork #amidward #sterlet #vivre #impales #henbits #spurdog #askingly #acarina #ashir

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Dashes

Do you know the difference between a ‘hyphen’, an ‘en dash’ and an ’em dash’? Many people have never heard of ‘en’ and ’em dashes’ but al…

GEORGE L THOMAS
Emily Dickinson's birthday and dashes in Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop

Today is Emily Dickinson's birthday (born in 1930, "called back" on 15 May 1886, as it says on her gravestone). I am not teaching a course o...

An erotic novel gets signed; tips on dashes.

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There are `people-that-use-dashes` and `people_that_use_underscores`.

It seems to me that people who use dashes rarely use them where the agreement is to use underscores.

On the opposite, where agreement is to use dashes there is always someone who decides to use underscores. This is really frustrating.

#programming #frustration #underscores #dashes #agreement #policy