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try: > In this case, em dashes are doing something similar to a pair of commas (which can also denote side info but they do it more casually) and parentheses.
by bencoder 12y ago
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> In this case, em dashes are doing something similar to a pair of commas (which can also denote side info but they do it more casually) and parentheses.
The commas after "pair of commas" are the parenthetical commas he is describing
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- pests 12y agoI would have shown the example with em dashes instead of parentheses as that was the point of the sentence.