randy_byers: (2010-08-15)
randy_byers ([personal profile] randy_byers) wrote2011-05-31 02:13 pm
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In praise of em-dashes

My response to the recent screed against em-dashes is that I love em-dashes so much that half my love for silent movies is for the frequent use of double em-dashes in the intertitles:

[identity profile] janetl.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
I am very prone to using the mdash and parentheses, because I can't finish a thought but must dash off in another direction!

[identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
I'm right there with you, sister.