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Ok... that title should have a comma, not an em dash. If you're going to complain about having them being removed, you have to use them properly at least. And

Ok... that title should have a comma, not an em dash. If you're going to complain about having them being removed, you have to use them properly at least. And then " It seems I have two choices now—keep using em dashes with a sort of stubborn, curmudgeonly pride until all my clients stop exchanging money for words, or start writing incredibly long run-on sentences, like this, with commas all over the place … and maybe ellipses too; ideas connected by semicolons. " That should be a colon after "two choices". (There's also clearly more than two options, one of which does not involve run-on sentences with his otherwise poor grammar. James seems like a shitty prose crafter if he's unable to avoid run-ons.)

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Freak_NL 1y ago
There is, of course, quite a bit of tongue-in-cheekiness in that article.
- miltonlost 1y ago
  Oh, I get the joke with the second part about the a run-on sentence and intentionally making that grammar mistake; mostly I don't like his hyperbole there and an either-or (the best jokes are the accurate ones). It's mainly the title I loathe for its poor usage of an em dash, which to me doesn't seem to be in on the joke.
xxs 1y ago
I like ellipses, they are best to convey my train of thought.
- Freak_NL 1y ago
  Although overuse of ellipses leads to text which generates the impression that the writer is constantly sighing. I find that exasperating and tiring to read.
- miltonlost 1y ago
  For me it's (often (nested)) parentheses.
  - xxs 1y ago
    That too!!
sodapopcan 1y ago
i guess you are saying that writers cant take creative freedom in their writing bending the rules to prove a point i dont agree but i do hate it when people do it on forums eschewing punctuation and capital letters which can often cause confusion and worst of all are the people who write one sentence per paragraph though your parentheses save you from that one

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Freak_NL 1y ago

There is, of course, quite a bit of tongue-in-cheekiness in that article.

miltonlost 1y ago
Oh, I get the joke with the second part about the a run-on sentence and intentionally making that grammar mistake; mostly I don't like his hyperbole there and an either-or (the best jokes are the accurate ones). It's mainly the title I loathe for its poor usage of an em dash, which to me doesn't seem to be in on the joke.

xxs 1y ago

I like ellipses, they are best to convey my train of thought.

Freak_NL 1y ago
Although overuse of ellipses leads to text which generates the impression that the writer is constantly sighing. I find that exasperating and tiring to read.
miltonlost 1y ago
For me it's (often (nested)) parentheses.
- xxs 1y ago
  That too!!

sodapopcan 1y ago

i guess you are saying that writers cant take creative freedom in their writing bending the rules to prove a point i dont agree but i do hate it when people do it on forums eschewing punctuation and capital letters which can often cause confusion and worst of all are the people who write one sentence per paragraph though your parentheses save you from that one