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How To Use Hyphens (Hint: Avoid)

I have some issues with hyphens. I am, at best, skeptical of them, which is no doubt a prejudice borne of ignorance concerning their usage. I most frequently fuck them up when it comes to modifiers,...

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Semiliteracy Is The New Sincerity

“A new study suggest[s] you should watch your punctuation when you send text messages or you may be sending an incorrect emotional message. Researchers at Binghamton University discovered text...

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Never Write a Novel With an En-dash in the Title

Lessons from a literary debut. Never write a novel with an en-dash in the title. You’ll finally learn the alt code, after months of searching “en-dash” in another tab and copying the result every time...

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Exclamation Point, 2003-201?

…Sicha has spent the past decade developing what has become the lingua franca of the Internet: un-snobbish endorsements, presented in a candid, self-consciously hysterical tone. (A recent tweet:...

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