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[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's sad, because for most people the use-case for an m-dash is relatively narrow—a parenthetic interjection relevant to the topic (but not sufficiently off-topic for brackets), and needing a subtle call to authority—it mostly popped up in academic or pseudo intellectual non-fiction, or in faulknerian ponderous fiction, but also as a hapless crutch for endlesss neurodivergent layers of qualification.

So I am going to claim disability discrimination about this brutal and unjust sudden boycott, on behalf of crew #adhd.

Edit: shits and giggles

[-] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

but also as a hapless crutch for endlesss neurodivergent layers of qualification.

I both resent and resemble that remark.

[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I just realized that I could have double-layered the m-dashes there, eh? Missed opportunity. Oh what the hell, I need to prolong lunch break juuust a little bit more, so

[-] vividspecter@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I just overuse parantheses instead, as you noted. You know you're rambling when you have several layers of them, like I'm writing a conversation in Lisp.

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