• Jax@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    1 天前

    Amusingly enough, one use case for em dashes is a pause where a comma would be too weak — refuting your assertion.

    Also, you used a hyphen.

    • TomasEkeli@programming.dev
      23·
      23 小时前

      not actually a hyphen, a minus (not that this matters to me in the slightest)

      I’m sorry, but “the pause is too weak” sounds squarely in the area of faffery to me.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
        41·
        20 小时前

        hyphen and minus is the same punctuation symbol in different contexts, at least how most people, including you, signify the mathematical symbol.

        • hyphen: -
        • minus: -
        • en-dash: –
        • em-dash: —

        so… yeah. pretty clear it doesn’t matter to you since you speak authoritatively about it while being incorrect

            • TomasEkeli@programming.dev
              22·
              12 小时前

              it’s like being an atheist and therefore not caring about the details of transsubstantiation. irrelevance.

              • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
                2·
                11 小时前

                it’s interesting you would phrase your simile like that because it seems much more like being an atheist and then having a strong opinion that the miracle of transubstantiation happens in the hindgut, even though no theology calls for that.

      • Jax@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        21 小时前

        It’s more along the lines of the comma is too weak for the pause. Likewise, there are places where the em dash is too strong for the pause.