Em Dashes

One wanted a lot of descriptive with em-dashes and “pop” while others wanted just the facts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm drafting some scripts for comics set during the Revolutionary War, and one of my first decisions was that they would include em-dashes, reflecting the typography of the time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. RAKOFF: I like things that, you know, build in that way with semi-colons and em-dashes and things like that. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Your copy editor would mark the em-dashes and all on the ms -- those were done with a space, two dashes, and another space -- thus -- and not an actual em-dash as done in the printed version. ❋ Steve Perry (2010)

A big part of this process is doing the opposite of a lot of the things I did when I created these issues in the first place: turning em-dashes back into --, un-curling quotes, and so on. ❋ Snarke (2008)

Even with those highly flexible em-dashes, it must have been hard to stitch that answer together. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I mean, I'm all for grammar snobbery, but this person blackballed the article because of frickin 'em-dashes. ❋ Candid Engineer (2008)

If you are doing the printer and copy editor's jobs, you have to do your own italics and em-dashes and ellipses and all. ❋ Steve Perry (2010)

I would have used em-dashes instead of hyphens for the break in the thought, but the intent was clear. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And I'm not writing for Mrs. Cowsar's English IV class, so my appreciation of grammar is looser -- you might see some split infinitives and sentences ending in prepositions and em-dashes and ellipses in funny places. ❋ Steve Perry (2009)

I am fond of ellipses and em-dashes, especially in first drafts, but much of that gets pared down by the final draft so I can let go of the punctuation. ❋ Unknown (2007)