/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20643046]

Well, /lit/—how do you respond?

[Anonymous No.20643053]

>>20643046
I don't care, I'm not going to read your book anyway.

[Anonymous No.20643070]

>>20643046
I don't care, I'm not going to read your book anyway.

[Anonymous No.20643080]

>>20643053
>>20643070
You, sir—you are a retard.

[Anonymous No.20643091]

>>20643080
Well, sir, you are the retard—proven by your inability to properly use the em dash.

[Anonymous No.20643097]

>>20643046
Based i guess op

[Anonymous No.20643104]

>>20643091
No, mister, I reiterate that it is you who is mentally subpar—clearly you do not understand the legitimate use—among the others—of the em dash so as to simulate speech. We should now stop doing this—it is very gay.

[Anonymous No.20643181]

>>20643104
Your mistake—of many—is assuming I mind this being very gay.

[Anonymous No.20643185]

I love---LOVE---long dashes.

[Anonymous No.20643301]

>>20643046
I don't care, I'm not going to read your book anyway.

[Anonymous No.20643312]

>>20643046
Well - I would say that it's not a problem for me.

[Anonymous No.20643317]

I use it whenever possible, my favorite punctuation mark for sure

[Anonymous No.20643414]

You are all g-a-y

[Anonymous No.20643424]

You know what?—I like it.

[Anonymous No.20643440]

>>20643046
Kek; I never minded the em dash as a proofreader

[Anonymous No.20643448]

How-is-it-going-fellow-dash-chads

[Anonymous No.20643468]

>>20643046
—卐—卐—卐—卐—卐—卐—卐—卐—卐—卐—卐—

[Anonymous No.20643471]

Delillo uses them a lot - I like them.

[Anonymous No.20643480]

>>20643046
Readers love the em dash, it makes things look clear

[Anonymous No.20643945]

Em dashes are for Americans and Victorians. Advanced types – such as myself – go for the spaced en dash.

[Anonymous No.20643962]

Dash/es are/is for fags/retards who can't/won't use right/proper punctuation.

[Anonymous No.20644119]

I first became aware of the em dash through the writing of Ed Anger in the Weekly World News. The first sentence of every column he wrote had an em dash preceding the punch line.

Along the lines of >>20643945, with most fonts I think think the em dash looks best with a hair's-breadth of space (not a full space) on either side.

[Anonymous No.20644216]

>>20643046
Any punctuation that isn't a comma or period makes soulless pseuds seethe

[Anonymous No.20644344]

>>20643046
>mfw James Joyce used dashes instead of quotation marks in Ulysses
>even would type —...

[Anonymous No.20644354]

>>20644344
Joyce was all about aesthetics, so of course he used dashes instead of quotation marks

[Anonymous No.20645901]

>>20643046
speaking as a highly regarded author———————————————————————————and a painter———————————————————————————, I disagree.

[Anonymous No.20645936]

>>20643046
>Nooooo you cant just put em dashes everywhere

[Anonymous No.20646053]

Am———————————————————————————————I—————————————————————doing—————————————————————————————————This——————————————————————————————————————————Right—————————————————————————————————————?

[Anonymous No.20646084]

>>20644344
>—...
This one is top tier.
... said by a character speaks more to a reader than long descriptions

[Anonymous No.20646317]

I don't know how to type the em dash.

[Anonymous No.20646335]

>>20644344
When I first began reading and writing in English I was surprised to find out that you use quotation marks as a way to describe dialogue. I don't know if this is more of an exception, but in Spanish dashes have always been used to present dialogue. So, for a while I'd write dialogue in English with dashes instead. Maybe Joyce was calling out to that method? He was a polyglot, after all.