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Ellipsis is accomplished with an ellipsis, not a dash. Use ... next time.

• smt88 6y ago
  This is the worst kind of pedantic because it is both pedantic and wrong[1]. You could argue against the dramatic period after the word "law," but why would you? We all understand her meaning and the dashes emphasize her point without bold or italic letters. 1. https://writingessentialsbyellen.com/when-to-use-the-ellipsis-or-the-dash-in-writing/ https://writingessentialsbyellen.com/when-to-use-the-ellipsi...
  • mkl 6y ago
    > We all understand her meaning and the dashes emphasize her point without bold or italic letters. I didn't understand the meaning until I clicked through to the article. In fact, trying to understand the weird punctuation is the only reason I took any interest in this story. I don't think dashes can work as emphasis for that part of a sentence.
  • GavinMcG 6y ago
    We don't all understand the meaning. And yes, here, the purpose was ellipsis: the original text was "Uber bought itself a law. Here's why that's dangerous for struggling drivers like me" and the submission was eliding portions of that. Your link and criticism are entirely inapt. The title was not using the dash for emphasis, and even if it were, it would have been inappropriate. The examples in the article you link are of a dash making a break in the chain of thought more emphatic. Dashes are not used to emphasize enclosed text itself.
• mkl 6y ago
  They're not trying to do an ellipsis, or a pause. I think it might be an attempt at emphasis, like italics.