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— A Love Letter to the Em-Dash
It hadn't occurred to me to have a favourite punctuation mark until a friend declared hers to be the em-dash in a list of 'odd favourites.' It's mine too. And, as this article makes clear, how oddly expressive of one's character it is: 'the dash often serves as the butterfly leaf on the di
It hadn't occurred to me to have a favourite punctuation mark until a friend declared hers to be the em-dash in a list of 'odd favourites.' It's mine too. And, as this article makes clear, how oddly expressive of one's character it is: 'the dash often serves as the butterfly leaf on the dining room table of a sentence — usually an extreme, many-claused, gonzo sentence — in the elbow-to-elbow eatery of a busy paragraph.' Em-dashes play all types of roles, but what they have in common is an inherent desire to do more, to say a little extra.
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