you think I don’t know this - I know I don’t care about it
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aren’t all of them “do a short pause”?
not actually a hyphen, a minus (not that this matters to me in the slightest)
I’m sorry, but “the pause is too weak” sounds squarely in the area of faffery to me.
dashes cannot always replace commas, but commas can replace dashes.
thus - commas are more powerful
thus, commas are more powerful
sorry, replied to the wrong comment
em dashes are typographical faffery and have always been (in my opinion) a marker of writers who take themselves, and the surface level of their style, far too serious.
just use commas, my friend
It’s a bit of a truce, as the only people accounting are really afraid of are IT.
TomasEkeli@programming.devto
memes@lemmy.world•Stargate is going to go the way of Mass Effect
13·12 days agoJust my opinion here, but I think Amazon Prime has quite a lot of good (original) content:
The Boys is good.
The Legend of Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein.
Good Omens was very entertaining.
Not my jam, but people seem to like Clarkson’s farm.
I also liked Invincible
there’s no ‘i’ on that keyboard?
TomasEkeli@programming.devto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?
3·29 days agoThe word “utilize” should almost always be changed to “use”.
And, people who cannot sing should not sing on stage.
TomasEkeli@programming.devto
General Memes & Private Chuckle@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Clever or pretentious?
1·29 days agoThat’s why he said “the shower-drain of languages”. It’s how English got so rich, by accepting words from wherever into it. It’s like a petri-dish that everyone spits into: wonderfully varied and complex, but not very sanitary.
Edit: dunno why I wrote shower curtain


it’s like being an atheist and therefore not caring about the details of transsubstantiation. irrelevance.