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biglaw firms need to get their shit together re: en dashes and em dashes
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:02 PM Author: big-titted exciting chapel I see even the most elite firms (literally Wachtell and Cravath and Kellog and other top places) file briefs using hyphens instead of en dashes and using en dashes or, god forbid, two hyphens for em dashes. get it together motherfuckers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641306) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: Godawful 180 mexican prole Two hyphens for em dashes isn't that bad. It's just ugly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641398) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: big-titted exciting chapel it's despicable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641410) |
Date: March 19th, 2018 9:03 PM Author: bearded excitant lodge Saw a guy get fired for this and straight up walked out before he jumped off the roof (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641317) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: Infuriating Stage Friendly Grandma lmfao that you're dealing with firms that aren't employing, at a minimum, the trendash. Point to fact, in times of great exigency, I've gone so far as to make use of a pentadash. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641319) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:55 PM Author: Infuriating Stage Friendly Grandma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#36050284) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: Flirting Garrison Trendash for life. What the fuck? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641323) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Infuriating Stage Friendly Grandma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641327) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: Mustard cheese-eating stag film (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641346) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: big-titted exciting chapel This literally does not exist in the English language. I have no idea what you are talking about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641347) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: Infuriating Stage Friendly Grandma (non-peer graduate; non-peer practitioner; non-peer farmers market goer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641352) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: big-titted exciting chapel I'm open to hearing an explanation. But I consider myself a punctuation hardliner and literally have no idea what you are talking about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641383) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: ruddy wonderful school cafeteria cuck Square apostrophes are the worst. I mean, show a little effort. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641333) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM Author: insecure disgusting nursing home Real pain in the ass in patent cases because you can’t just replace all (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641407) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:16 PM Author: big-titted exciting chapel You know what is really fucking insane is when people point the apostrophe the wrong way in patent cases. You see this all the time. Probably greater than 50% of the time, a biglaw firm will write about the 999 patent and have the apostrophe at the beginning pointing the wrong way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641435) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:03 PM Author: erotic self-centered center personal credit line cr, huge patent prole tell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641765) |
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Date: March 21st, 2018 12:17 PM Author: big-titted exciting chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35652523) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: Green Round Eye (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641869) |
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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:18 AM Author: chocolate ticket booth i correct every goddamn one. the founding fathers talked about patents in the goddamn constitution for fucks sake show a little respect (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35658723) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:01 PM Author: big-titted exciting chapel Good job man. We’d be friends. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#36038907) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Underhanded Senate This is a little known fact: the CAFC shreds your brief if they see a straight or backwards quote. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#36038931) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: big-titted exciting chapel Btw, why can’t you use the replace function in patent cases??? I’d like an explanation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#36038946) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:54 PM Author: Underhanded Senate It flips them all so they curl away from the number. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#36050278) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Flesh yarmulke spot two hyphens all day, fuck trying to find the button for em bash all the time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641336) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: Infuriating Stage Friendly Grandma you can typically just use a voice command ime (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641345) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: electric market generalized bond Using hyphens instead of en dashes to save a line when faced with a page limit: decadent or shrewd? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641343) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:09 PM Author: big-titted exciting chapel Honestly the one situation where I have been tempted to use a hyphen instead of an en dash (and, on occasion, have succumbed) is when faced with a strict word limit. If you use an en dash, Microsoft Word records the range as two words whereas it records a single word if you use a hyphen. But it is incorrect usage and I've always been tempted to call people out for violating the word count where they hit it exactly while employing 50 hyphens in the place of en dashes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641372) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: cerebral mad-dog skullcap locale You could have avoided all this just by doing better in HS calculus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641379) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: Infuriating Stage Friendly Grandma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641390) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: Godawful 180 mexican prole Most lawyers did just fine in HS math. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641414) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: Haunting Legend Kitty Cat The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641395) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:15 PM Author: Godawful 180 mexican prole Amateur!
Increase the font scale setting to increase the hyphen to 300%. |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:18 PM Author: big-titted exciting chapel This is conscious rules flouting and robs you of your plausible deniability. Many jurisdictions, for example Delaware, now require briefs to be filed in Word format. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641456) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:59 PM Author: Godawful 180 mexican prole Very TTT.
But who's going to check? |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:33 PM Author: Flesh yarmulke spot People who care about this are what make biglaw miserable, fyi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641582) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:34 PM Author: Green Round Eye "bake?" oh shit, I just proved your point. Bake me away, toys. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641586) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:36 PM Author: Flesh yarmulke spot Damn you're fast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641601) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:02 PM Author: Green Round Eye That took several hours per my notebook of billables. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641760) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: Flesh yarmulke spot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641859) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:00 PM Author: electric market generalized bond Brother, clients pay $620 an hour for us to care about this so we can maintain credibility and prestige with judges. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641748) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:01 PM Author: Haunting Legend Kitty Cat Judge: Well, I was going to rule in defendant's favor, but then I noticed inconsistent em-dashes. Summary judgment for the plaintiff! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641758) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: Flesh yarmulke spot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641861) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: Flesh yarmulke spot nobody whose time has any value gives one solitary fuck about this. its all dipshit mid level associates one upping each other. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641868) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:01 PM Author: Multi-colored Base Toaster *BEEP BEEP BEEP* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641759) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:49 PM Author: Sapphire vibrant boiling water bawdyhouse killself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35645224) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:51 PM Author: vermilion seedy selfie heaven alt 0151 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35645233) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:54 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle keepsake machete transhyphenist non bigot here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35645255) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:56 PM Author: Violent laughsome parlor degenerate I see even the most elite firms -- literally Wachtell and Cravath and Kellog and other top places -- file briefs using hyphens instead of en dashes and using en dashes or -- god forbid -- two hyphens for em dashes. get it together motherfuckers.
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:02 PM Author: Confused Turdskin Queen Of The Night This is — the credited criticism — so say I. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#36038917) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 10:43 PM Author: Underhanded Senate The SGs office is the last bastion of good writing in the profession. Their punctuation is always on point. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#36039460) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 7:39 PM Author: cerise cuckoldry Worrying about this is the ultimate no book of business tell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#36050530) |