Comments on: Please dress up the Em dash https://briansteel.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/please-dress-up-the-em-dash/ Sun, 05 Jul 2015 13:58:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: CarolDru https://briansteel.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/please-dress-up-the-em-dash/#comment-1493 Sun, 05 Jul 2015 13:58:15 +0000 http://briansteel.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-1493 At last, someone who agrees with me on breathing space either side of the EN and EM dash. The crowded dash offends my sensibility, except where it indicates an abrupt interruption, which – visually – it is.

]]> By: Brian Steel https://briansteel.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/please-dress-up-the-em-dash/#comment-836 Mon, 05 May 2014 05:26:41 +0000 http://briansteel.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-836 In reply to John Kort.

Sorry for the inordinate delay, John!
Why not enclose the list in ordinary parentheses and then add a comma?

Having lived in the town that had everything (culture, society, and people), John valued [the] good things in life.
BTW, you used an ENdash, which I prefer anyway!
Best wishes,
Brian Steel

]]> By: John Kort https://briansteel.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/please-dress-up-the-em-dash/#comment-211 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:51:23 +0000 http://briansteel.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-211 Great article about emdash!

Can you comment on whether there should be a comma after “everything” and before the emdash in the following?

1) Having lived in the town that had everything–culture, society, and people–, John valued good things in life.

or

2) Having lived in the town that had everything–culture, society, and people–John valued good things in life.

Thanks!

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