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How to properly use and format hyphens and dashes
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How to properly use and format hyphens and dashes

ByJosh Bernoff January 27, 2025January 27, 2025

The em-dash (—) is getting a lot bad press these days. Writers overuse it, and not coincidentally, so do AI language generators. An em-dash is a perfectly reasonable piece of punctuation, but if you’re going to use it, you might need a little more detail on when and how. So here’s a tutorial on the…

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Analyzing your punctuation tendencies
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Analyzing your punctuation tendencies

ByJosh Bernoff March 22, 2023May 3, 2023

How do you punctuate what you write? I like rhetorical questions, think we use way too many em-dashes, and disdain exclamation points. But how well do I follow my own rules? One way to analyze punctuation habits is with “just the punctuation,” a fascinating tool that allows you enter any collection of text and X-ray…

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The em dash is a bit of a jerk — replace it whenever possible
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The em dash is a bit of a jerk — replace it whenever possible

ByJosh Bernoff August 23, 2019May 3, 2023

Unless — and I admit this is possible — you’re trying to annoy the reader, try not to fall in love — or even in like — with the em dash. So many manuscripts I edit suffer from inflammation of the em dash — it’s rampant — as if these little buggers multiply like cockroaches….

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