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LATRAME

@latrame

4w ago

The whole world is purging its em dashes. Too associated with machines, apparently.

Emily Dickinson's dash. Woolf's. Céline's. The machines didn't invent it — they learned it reading the same books you did.

We'll let you decide who has to give it back.

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LATRAME

@latrame

4w ago

Punctuation is the stage direction of the sentence. The period says : lower your voice. The comma says : breathe, but stay on stage. The ellipsis says : look away while you finish your line...

And the semicolon, the least loved of all, says something nothing else can say : these two sentences are independent ; they still refuse to be separated.

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punctuation · writingstyle · semicolon · writingadvice