sentences with em dashes—such as this one—are fucking awesome.

10/1/2009 4:51:29 PM

But also — way overused.

10/1/2009 4:52:01 PM

i thought this thread was about Keeping up with the Kardashians

10/1/2009 4:52:16 PM

ok where is that fucker on my keyboard?

10/1/2009 4:53:01 PM

evan making — threads turn ~ since i dunno, 1979?

[Edited on October 1, 2009 at 4:55 PM. Reason : since — > -]

10/1/2009 4:53:14 PM

^^^^no, they're just used improperly most of the time.

also, most people don't know the difference between an en dash and an em dash.

^that's an en dash—get that shit out of here.

10/1/2009 4:53:37 PM

evan, I think I love you. Please refer to my em dash thread from yesterday.

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=577791

10/1/2009 4:55:31 PM

you sure this isn't a hyphen-thread?

10/1/2009 4:56:25 PM

^^omg.

you just earned 2907 awesome points.

^oh lawd. please tell me you know the difference between dashes and hyphens.

hyphen: -
en dash: –
em dash: —

10/1/2009 4:56:48 PM

10/1/2009 4:57:22 PM

i was going to make an em dash thread--when in doubt dash--but changed my mind

10/1/2009 4:58:07 PM

HOW THE HOLY HELL DO YOU EM DASH????

10/1/2009 4:58:54 PM

Do know.

10/1/2009 4:59:09 PM

^^ —

10/1/2009 5:00:41 PM

♥—♥

10/1/2009 5:01:20 PM

Quote :

"also, most people don't know the difference between an en dash and an em dash."

Or an en dash and a hyphen.

[Edited on October 1, 2009 at 5:04 PM. Reason : oops, already pointed out]

10/1/2009 5:01:57 PM

^or an en dash and the minus sign.

[Edited on October 1, 2009 at 5:03 PM. Reason : this is now the thread where we discuss our grammatical superiority]

10/1/2009 5:03:08 PM

Alt + 0151!

10/1/2009 5:05:30 PM

I ♥ this thread so much.

10/1/2009 5:05:55 PM

this thread is not allowed to die

also,

Quote :

"evan making — threads turn ~ since i dunno, 1979?"

so i was ~ even 9 years before my birth?

10/1/2009 10:26:53 PM

emdash almost ruined my fucking week

goddamnit why do people not understand the difference between charmaps, codepoints and string encodings

10/1/2009 10:41:26 PM

You're such a baby. I am a cougar

10/1/2009 10:42:08 PM

They hate you?

10/1/2009 10:42:35 PM

oh Chance why do you hate me?

no no, they're just morons. Well that and Verity k2 apparently doesn't do very well when you ask it output utf8 when the collection is 1252.

10/1/2009 10:44:19 PM

What kind of software are you writing these days? I bet you're writing HFT stuff aren't you?

10/1/2009 10:46:50 PM

I actually was working pretty close to HFT when I was with Morgan Stanley. But, I've been with a company called Factset for a couple years now. Actually today was my golive date for the embargoed equity research product i've been working on for the past 12 months or so.

10/1/2009 10:50:14 PM