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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: Overrated Rebellious Shitlib Heaven 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: contagious umber goal in life 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: Overrated Rebellious Shitlib Heaven it's despicable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2).#35641410) |
Date: March 19th, 2018 9:03 PM Author: Big flirting gunner theatre 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: dead travel guidebook nibblets 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: March 20th, 2018 12:53 PM Author: disturbing bawdyhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2).#35645246) |
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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:22 AM Author: dull zippy hunting ground kitchen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2).#35658763) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:55 PM Author: dead travel guidebook nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2).#36050284) |
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Date: August 4th, 2025 1:07 PM Author: narrow-minded hairy legs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2).#49155425) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: Talented erotic sweet tailpipe 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: dead travel guidebook nibblets (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: Splenetic histrionic voyeur (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: Overrated Rebellious Shitlib Heaven 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: dead travel guidebook nibblets (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: Overrated Rebellious Shitlib Heaven 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 9:14 PM Author: House-broken step-uncle's house Check out Eats, Shoots, and Trendashes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2).#35641427) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:55 PM Author: Sickened jade point dog poop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2).#35645264) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: navy lascivious cruise ship newt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2).#35641354) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:08 PM Author: gold public bath jap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2).#35641366) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: Sickened jade point dog poop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2).#35641386) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM Author: Slap-happy Glittery Area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2).#35641406) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: buck-toothed stage twinkling uncleanness Is this flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2).#35641326) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Chest-beating whorehouse 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: Exhilarant sick indian lodge nowag 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: Overrated Rebellious Shitlib Heaven 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: Doobsian abnormal spot 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: Overrated Rebellious Shitlib Heaven (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: House-broken step-uncle's house (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: Razzle Property 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: Overrated Rebellious Shitlib Heaven 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: Misunderstood macaca 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: Overrated Rebellious Shitlib Heaven 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: Misunderstood macaca 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: blue codepig parlour 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: dead travel guidebook nibblets 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: red flatulent reading party state 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: Overrated Rebellious Shitlib Heaven 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: buck-toothed stage twinkling uncleanness 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: dead travel guidebook nibblets (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: contagious umber goal in life 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: irate university 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: contagious umber goal in life Amateur!
Increase the font scale setting to increase the hyphen to 300%. |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:18 PM Author: Overrated Rebellious Shitlib Heaven 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: contagious umber goal in life Very TTT.
But who's going to check? |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:33 PM Author: blue codepig parlour 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: House-broken step-uncle's house "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: blue codepig parlour 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: House-broken step-uncle's house 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: blue codepig parlour (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: red flatulent reading party state 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: irate university 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: blue codepig parlour (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: blue codepig parlour 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 20th, 2018 12:54 PM Author: Maize Dopamine School Cafeteria 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: khaki low-t useless brakes 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: soul-stirring emerald stain 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: Misunderstood macaca 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: Iridescent tanning salon Worrying about this is the ultimate no book of business tell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2).#36050530) |