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Skitt
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:06 am
Post subject: Re: what's the mean of "just butterflies" in this sentence |
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Abacan wrote:
| Quote: | "Skitt" wrote:
Freddy rakstija:
"Bill Bonde wrote:
Abacan wrote:
I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
Doesn't just one hyphen make it look like some weird adjective
modifying butterflies?
No; it just denotes a pause.
For that you need a dash.
en
i think it's a dash here, not a hyphen
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I see a hyphen. A dash, using this font, is typed as --
--
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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Skitt
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:06 am
Post subject: Re: what's the mean of "just butterflies" in this sentence |
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Abacan wrote:
| Quote: | en
i think it's a dash here, not a hyphen
"Skitt" <skitt99@comcast.net> ??????:2vcpe0F2itt1qU1@uni-berlin.de...
Freddy rakstija:
"Bill Bonde wrote:
Abacan wrote:
I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
Doesn't just one hyphen make it look like some weird adjective
modifying butterflies?
No; it just denotes a pause.
For that you need a dash.
--
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/ |
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Abacan
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:06 am
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en
i think it's a dash here, not a hyphen
"Skitt" <skitt99@comcast.net> ??????:2vcpe0F2itt1qU1@uni-berlin.de...
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Freddy rakstija:
"Bill Bonde wrote:
Abacan wrote:
I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
Doesn't just one hyphen make it look like some weird adjective
modifying butterflies?
No; it just denotes a pause.
For that you need a dash.
--
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/
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Charles Riggs
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:05 pm
Post subject: Re: what's the mean of "just butterflies" in this sentence |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:32:30 -0800, "Bill Bonde ( ``And the Lamb lies
down on Broadway'' )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
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Charles Riggs wrote:
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:33:13 -0800, "Skitt" <skitt99@comcast.net
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Bill Bonde rakstija:
Skitt wrote:
Freddy rakstija:
"Bill Bonde wrote:
Abacan wrote:
I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
Doesn't just one hyphen make it look like some weird adjective
modifying butterflies?
No; it just denotes a pause.
For that you need a dash.
Of course I was complaining about using a connected hyphen as if it
were a dash.
I understood that.
I still think that a comma there would've been less
punctuation with a fist to the teeth, but your opinion may differ.
A comma would be fine. A dash would also be acceptable, at least to me.
Acceptable, but my rule is never use an ugly dash when a pretty comma
will do. Dashes jerk, commas flow.
That's what I was calling punctuating with a fist to the teeth. The dash
just sticks out, makes itself the centre of attention. That's also
clearly true with the semicolon.
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Good man. We totally agree on both types of punctuation, I'd say.
| Quote: | As I suggested elsewhere, what we
really need is a semicomma.
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Around 99.44 per cent of the time, periods, commas, and colons are all
you need. I'm not so sure a dash or a semicolon is the better choice
even 0.56 per cent of the time.
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Charles Riggs
They are no accented letters in my email address |
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Bill Bonde ( ``And the La
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:01 pm
Post subject: Re: what's the mean of "just butterflies" in this sentence |
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Charles Riggs wrote:
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:32:30 -0800, "Bill Bonde ( ``And the Lamb lies
down on Broadway'' )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
Charles Riggs wrote:
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:33:13 -0800, "Skitt" <skitt99@comcast.net
wrote:
Bill Bonde rakstija:
Skitt wrote:
Freddy rakstija:
"Bill Bonde wrote:
Abacan wrote:
I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
Doesn't just one hyphen make it look like some weird adjective
modifying butterflies?
No; it just denotes a pause.
For that you need a dash.
Of course I was complaining about using a connected hyphen as if it
were a dash.
I understood that.
I still think that a comma there would've been less
punctuation with a fist to the teeth, but your opinion may differ.
A comma would be fine. A dash would also be acceptable, at least to me.
Acceptable, but my rule is never use an ugly dash when a pretty comma
will do. Dashes jerk, commas flow.
That's what I was calling punctuating with a fist to the teeth. The dash
just sticks out, makes itself the centre of attention. That's also
clearly true with the semicolon.
Good man. We totally agree on both types of punctuation, I'd say.
High fives I take. |
| Quote: | As I suggested elsewhere, what we
really need is a semicomma.
Around 99.44 per cent of the time, periods, commas, and colons are all
you need. I'm not so sure a dash or a semicolon is the better choice
even 0.56 per cent of the time.
What I'm talking about is a way to hint at the sort of thing that can be |
done in speech; no, wait, the sort of things that can be done in speech.
--
So I was feeding the hummingbirds but not changing the feeder sugar
water quickly enough and it fermented into something like that stuff
that Hunter S Thompson was drinking in the Rum Diary, anyway, so I had
these drunk birds flying everywhere just like mosquitoes in Minnesota,
dashing up one side of me, darting down the other, crashing into the
windows, falling off their perches, didn't even know they perched,
flying backwards, flying backwards, it was like something out of the
Exorcist. After a while though, I got bored with it all. Next Summer I'm
going to Alaska to feed french bread soaked in Wild Turkey to polar
bears. Wish me luck! |
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