• SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    It’s sad, because for most people the use-case for an m-dash is relatively narrow—a parenthetic interjection relevant to the topic but not sufficiently off-topic for brackets, and needing a subtle call to authority—it mostly popped up in academic or pseudo intellectual non-fiction, or in faulknerian ponderous fiction, but also as a hapless crutch for endlesss neurodivergent layers of qualification.

    So I am going to claim disability discrimination about this brutal and unjust sudden boycott, on behalf of crew #adhd.

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      2 months ago

      but also as a hapless crutch for endlesss neurodivergent layers of qualification.

      I both resent and resemble that remark.

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        I just realized that I could have double-layered the m-dashes there, eh? Missed opportunity. Oh what the hell, I need to prolong lunch break juuust a little bit more, so