EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[mlm Mike]

No, you're blaming the dash.

The dash is just an abused innocent bystander in this. I believe I said if you use an em dash you should either work on improving your sentence structure or quit writing. It's a combination of poor writing and lack of faith in the reading comprehension of the reader.

 

[duluthralphie]

Or willful disregard of writing rules to get someone's dander up a tad. Not that I would ever do that, but I know some here that would.

 

[mlm Mike]

I think Wm was lying when he said that...


If you recall--- the end of Romeo and Juliet...

Juliet has just revived from the sleeping potion--------to find Romeo deader than a door nail next to her...She is distraught---

And she says " Romeo oh Romeo--- Hast ye drank it all, Couldeth thou have not left a dash for me....For I would rather die than live in em-dash hell without you.... I shall have to dash out my live on your short dash sword... (then she runs to his sword and grabs it==== comes back and kisses the dirty rotting corpse that was once Romeo) and says " I hereby declare my undying love you, Romeo as I dash my life short with your dash blade" then plunges the blade into her heart...



With all the references to dashes he made, I doubt he hated the dash....I think it was just the em-dash he hated.......... I also bet he made lots of pe-dashes in his life.

Yes, but he greatly regretted writing that, thus the death bed confession of his total disdain for the dash, em or otherwise.

 

[BantyChooks]

The dash is just an abused innocent bystander in this. I believe I said if you use an em dash you should either work on improving your sentence structure or quit writing. It's a combination of poor writing and lack of faith in the reading comprehension of the reader.

It isn't. The em dash lends style and a brilliant spark to writing. Unless it's used by idiots.

As for the reading comprehension of said reader: I have little faith in that nowadays.

 

[mlm Mike]

It isn't. The em dash lends style and a brilliant spark to writing. Unless it's used by idiots.

As for the reading comprehension of said reader: I have little faith in that nowadays.

One should take someone's writing with em dashes with the same seriousness as they would of someone using a heart to dot their "i" or drawing a smile face in their "o".

 

[duluthralphie]

I always put the Heart above my eyes!! It shows my sweet inner side...

 

[mlm Mike]

I always put the Heart above my eyes!! It shows my sweet inner side...

 

[duluthralphie]

You laugh!! I am thinking of having them tattooed there so I don't have to draw them on every month when I shower...

 

[mlm Mike]

You laugh!! I am thinking of having them tattooed there so I don't have to draw them on every month when I shower...

That's a great time saving tip!

 

[duluthralphie]

That's a great time saving tip!

That's me, practical to a fault!