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Unspaced em dash—like so
Spaced em dash — like so
Spaced en dash – like so

Poll Results

Option	Votes
SND	13
SMD	11
UMD	5

― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 14:57 (fifteen years ago)

Spaced en dash, plz.

― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 14:58 (fifteen years ago)

me 2

― Eddie Cibrian levels of irony (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 15:17 (fifteen years ago)

smh

― all the love sent up high to pledge won't reach the (ledge), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 15:26 (fifteen years ago)

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― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 15:29 (fifteen years ago)

Definitely spaced, but em or en? Em has that old-school book flavour about it, but en seems so much more efficient. Hmm.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:18 (fifteen years ago)

ems just look uggerly to me, like two spaces after a full stop.

― all the love sent up high to pledge won't reach the (ledge), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:19 (fifteen years ago)

I really love dashes and use them all the time, as anyone would probably notice who read ILX with any frequency (also: semi-colons!!!!). The space-em-space seems breezier, freer, and looser than the others. Since dashes convey breeziness anyway, I like that format best.

― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:24 (fifteen years ago)

Em, no spaces. Get with it.

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:27 (fifteen years ago)

Ledge, I think two spaces after a full stop is much better, and thus you have just sealed the deal in my voting for spaced em.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:28 (fifteen years ago)

En, spaced is my autopilot dash style – ton of magazine subbing means it's just where my fingers go when I think 'I need a dash here.' Gets my vote.

(But Laurence Sterne is the true dash hero – dashes of different lengths for different effects, structuring rhythm of prose)

― portrait of velleity (woof), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:38 (fifteen years ago)

OTM re: Sterne

― emil.y, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:42 (fifteen years ago)

haha Sterne sometimes uses megadashes, and the effect is superb

― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:44 (fifteen years ago)

enspaced em or spaced en

i used to be militantly for the former but idk, i don't really do kerning on a word doc so ems looks kinda fucked up

― make em say ukhh (history mayne), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:49 (fifteen years ago)

Still editions of Sterne around that just use one length of dash, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, ed. disgusting savage.

― portrait of velleity (woof), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:54 (fifteen years ago)

Em, no spaces. Get with it.

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, October 27, 2010 11:27 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

― elephant rob, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 17:47 (fifteen years ago)

Plus the Alt+Code for an en dash is an even number (150), so it's got that going for it.

― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 17:59 (fifteen years ago)

I thought this was going to be a thread for people saying things like "Dash it all, will no one save my damned child?".

― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 18:41 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 1 November 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

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