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My eye hit the "It’s not just hot water – here’s why" as one of the first things... em-dash, here's why... I smell the smelly smell, even though I'm not even op
by teekert 9mo ago
My eye hit the "It’s not just hot water – here’s why" as one of the first things... em-dash, here's why... I smell the smelly smell, even though I'm not even opposed to it haha.
- latexr 9mo agoIt’s not an em-dash, but an en-dash. So it’s incorrectly used.
- webstrand 9mo agoIts correctly used, just not common in American English. <https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/book/ed18/part2/ch06/psec089.html https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/book/ed18/part2/ch06/ps...>
- latexr 9mo agoLink is behind a login wall.
- webstrand 9mo agoWild, apparently my institution pays for that, sorry for the dead link. <https://cmosshoptalk.com/2020/06/09/en-dashes-the-editors-mark/#:~:text=En%20Dash%20as%20Dash https://cmosshoptalk.com/2020/06/09/en-dashes-the-editors-ma...> quotes the relevant section here. I can't find another source for the CMOS.
- crazygringo 9mo agoA "parenthetical dash" (the semantic meaning) can be typeset either as an em dash (a typographic meaning) without spaces, or as an en dash (a typographic meaning) surrounded by spaces. And the latter is often referred to as an em dash (as a semantic meaning), since basically everyone uses that to mean "parenthetical dash" which is the correct term but a term that virtually nobody uses.
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