archives for Saturday 16 September 2006
angst (of the kind undergraduates get when they have too many essays)
Saturday 16 September 2006 | someone left a cookie
Can you say, deadline? Repeat after me, boys and girls. Let’s all say it together: Deadline. Head cold. Autumn. Hey, at least the crockery pile-up stems from being overwhelmed with work, rather than abject depression. At least when I burst into tears it’s because I’m despondent and frightened, not because I’m…right. I don’t like my [...]
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on hyphens, en-dashes and em-dashes
Saturday 16 September 2006 | someone left a cookie
What looks better online? A hyphen like Dickinson’s – surrounded with space on both sides – or something else, like a full em-dash for punctuation—which has no space on either side—or what the Other Author has been using – an en-dash, an unusual mark made by striking option and then the hyphen – which I [...]
