β|βπβ|β
β|βπ±β|β
β|βπβ|β
Stab me with your em-dash,
Stab me in the heart,
Scarecrow my prose away
Burn it, burn it all on the fire,
I’ve been jousted in the eyes,
Can’t see the words for tears,
Flowing poetic aesthetics,
Bleeding out on the floor;
Operator, operator,
This is an emergency,
Em-dash razor-wire fortresses, areβ
Rationing out literatic beauty!
The em dash is an incredibly versatile punctuation mark that can be used instead of parentheses, commas, colons, or quotation marks in a sentence.
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The em dash has a fan club of sorts, as writers love to debate its many uses (and possible overuses). Noting that people have proclaimed their love of this punctuation mark with em dash tattoos, the New York Times called it βthe bad boy, or cool girl, of punctuation. A freewheeling scofflaw. A rebel without a clause.β
Whodunnit? I dunno. But murder weapon was em-dash: βπ©Έ.
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I was looking at punctuation last night and wanted to write a poem, but it didn’t come out.
This is the first time I know about this punctuation- Em Dash.
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Haha! Seriously? What a coincidence. Maybe your inspiration came to me instead π.
Yes there are actually three types of horizontal line: – (hyphen), β (en-dash), β (em-dash). But most people use hyphens for everything.
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I love the em-dash! I am sort of upset people have tattoos of it because I thought my love was special and unique.
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Haha! Sorry π
The trouble is there are actually three different types of horizontal line punctuation: – β β, but there’s a general lack of familiarity and most people have the impression that they all ‘look the same’ so use hyphens as a catch-all.
I can’t even type an em-dash now without a complicated keyboard shortcut. It’s discrimination. π€·ββοΈ
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Usually whatever I’m using, except WordPress, formats it automatically.
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