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Subject:RE: Re: Using M-dash and N-dash From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:10 Feb 2004 23:37:19 GMT
Okay, amend that. Take samples of each, show them to all
those people and ask them if they see any difference and
impart any different meaning to the different symbols.
Gene Kim-Eng
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Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:42:31 -0800 ?wrote:
Actually not.
He said I should ask people whether they *use* em dashes in their writing
and whether they care what's written in the Chicago Manual of Style (CMoS).
