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Particularly given that the dreaded em-dash is not commonly used in Irish or UK English; it’s mostly a US English thing.
by rsynnott 7mo ago
Particularly given that the dreaded em-dash is not commonly used in Irish or UK English; it’s mostly a US English thing.
- microtonal 7mo agoThe original (?) apology in Dutch does not use em-dashes: https://steady.page/en/journalistiekondervuur/posts/dd6e066f-36d2-4915-b3af-d9faa6174810 https://steady.page/en/journalistiekondervuur/posts/dd6e066f...
- rsynnott 7mo agoOh, I had completely missed that he’d done this in a Dutch paper too. All I’d heard of it previously was that his articles had been pulled by the Irish Independent, so I was expecting the apology to be in English.