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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Reading a university style guide that recommends "eleven year-old children".

This does not mean what they think it means, but on the plus side it could lead to some wildly amusing data.

#punctuation #hyphens #writing #StyleGuide #language #orthography

Working on a sort of (very very) simple #SolarSystem #Civ type game. Just in #linux #terminal for now, because much easier for me. Learning a lot about #python and the importance of indentation.

Makes me want to create a #programming language that uses #EmDashes, #EnDashes, and #hyphens. Just because.

- function
– blah
— blah blah

Planets revolve around the sun, ships travel between planets. basic resource use and collection.

Full disclosure: #Google #Gemini is tutoring me.

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

Be dashing—and do it well

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

Be dashing—and do it well

People will be wondering how to use hyphens till the coworkers come home

#hyphens #spelling #EnglishUsage #writing #WritingCommunity

A line-by-line fact-check of the Musk-Trump interview #climate #hyphens

https://heated.world/p/a-line-by-line-fact-check-of-the

A line-by-line fact check of the Musk-Trump interview

Both men told some pretty serious tall tales about climate change.

HEATED
_The Evening Post_, 18 Apr 1923:
SPARE THE HYPHEN
STRIKING STORY OF WASTE
It is said that enormous sums are lost every year through our habit of putting a hyphen in such words as “to-night,” “to-morrow,” and so on.
This startling statement is made by a number of mathematical experts who have been inquiring into the cost of #printing #hyphens, letters which are not sounded, and other useless symbols, says the Sydney “Sun.” Every year, they say, the French and British alone lose £8,000,000 through these practices.
The report states that in all the papers and magazines published in France 108,000,000,000 letters are used annually. Of these, 14,200,000,000 letters represent wasted labour. This causes printers’ ink to the value of £500,000 to be used without need in one country alone!
In English publications the waste costs £1,500,000 per annum. The space taken up by useless signs covers £1,000,000 worth of paper in France and £4,000,000 worth in England.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230418.2.121
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Punctuation #Spelling #Orthography

Speaking of dread, the weirdest line break I've seen in a while, and in a linguistics book: "min-dreading"

#hyphens #dread #typesetting #words #reading

Reading a book that keeps referring to "anti-social housing policy". That is not the same thing as "anti-social-housing policy"

Writers: multiple hyphenation is your friend

#writing #editing #punctuation #hyphens #ambiguity