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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: violent harsh haunted graveyard 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/en-en/#35641306) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: sexy sepia whorehouse tank 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/en-en/#35641398) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: violent harsh haunted graveyard it's despicable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641410) |
Date: March 19th, 2018 9:03 PM Author: abusive buff international law enforcement agency 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/en-en/#35641317) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: Startled legal warrant 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/en-en/#35641319) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:55 PM Author: Startled legal warrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#36050284) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: Mewling Principal's Office Trendash for life. What the fuck? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641323) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Startled legal warrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641327) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: Aphrodisiac obsidian patrolman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641346) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: violent harsh haunted graveyard 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/en-en/#35641347) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: Startled legal warrant (non-peer graduate; non-peer practitioner; non-peer farmers market goer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641352) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: violent harsh haunted graveyard 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/en-en/#35641383) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: Misanthropic crackhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641386) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM Author: White Locale Codepig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641406) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: very tactful casino incel Is this flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641326) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Judgmental idiotic area partner Square apostrophes are the worst. I mean, show a little effort. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641333) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM Author: hyperactive purple ratface community account 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/en-en/#35641407) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:16 PM Author: violent harsh haunted graveyard 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/en-en/#35641435) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:03 PM Author: Slimy Kink-friendly Genital Piercing cr, huge patent prole tell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641765) |
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Date: March 21st, 2018 12:17 PM Author: violent harsh haunted graveyard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35652523) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: Comical hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641869) |
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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:18 AM Author: rough-skinned emerald faggot firefighter spot 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/en-en/#35658723) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:01 PM Author: violent harsh haunted graveyard Good job man. We’d be friends. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#36038907) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Vermilion senate goyim 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/en-en/#36038931) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: violent harsh haunted graveyard 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/en-en/#36038946) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:54 PM Author: Vermilion senate goyim It flips them all so they curl away from the number. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#36050278) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: lilac french chef black woman 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/en-en/#35641336) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: Startled legal warrant you can typically just use a voice command ime (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641345) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: razzmatazz impressive brunch 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/en-en/#35641343) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:09 PM Author: violent harsh haunted graveyard 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/en-en/#35641372) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: very tactful casino incel 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/en-en/#35641379) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: Startled legal warrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641390) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: sexy sepia whorehouse tank Most lawyers did just fine in HS math. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641414) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: Supple library generalized bond 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/en-en/#35641395) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:15 PM Author: sexy sepia whorehouse tank Amateur!
Increase the font scale setting to increase the hyphen to 300%. |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:18 PM Author: violent harsh haunted graveyard 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/en-en/#35641456) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:59 PM Author: sexy sepia whorehouse tank Very TTT.
But who's going to check? |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:33 PM Author: lilac french chef black woman People who care about this are what make biglaw miserable, fyi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641582) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:34 PM Author: Comical hell "bake?" oh shit, I just proved your point. Bake me away, toys. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641586) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:36 PM Author: lilac french chef black woman Damn you're fast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641601) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:02 PM Author: Comical hell That took several hours per my notebook of billables. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641760) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: lilac french chef black woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641859) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:00 PM Author: razzmatazz impressive brunch 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/en-en/#35641748) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:01 PM Author: Supple library generalized bond 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/en-en/#35641758) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: lilac french chef black woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641861) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: lilac french chef black woman 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/en-en/#35641868) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:54 PM Author: black wagecucks transhyphenist non bigot here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35645255) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:56 PM Author: Bright pocket flask 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: Swashbuckling cordovan becky This is — the credited criticism — so say I. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#36038917) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 10:43 PM Author: Vermilion senate goyim 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/en-en/#36039460) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 7:39 PM Author: curious flushed church legend Worrying about this is the ultimate no book of business tell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#36050530) |