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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 office azn 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...id#35641306) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: fishy tantric locus newt 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...id#35641398) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: violent office azn it's despicable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641410) |
Date: March 19th, 2018 9:03 PM Author: Talented Cyan Rigor Keepsake Machete 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...id#35641317) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: Ultramarine Slap-happy Water Buffalo 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...id#35641319) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:55 PM Author: Ultramarine Slap-happy Water Buffalo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#36050284) |
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Date: August 4th, 2025 1:07 PM Author: i gave my cousin head (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#49155425) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: translucent twinkling uncleanness lodge Trendash for life. What the fuck? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641323) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Ultramarine Slap-happy Water Buffalo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641327) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: amber internal respiration headpube (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641346) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: violent office azn 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...id#35641347) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: Ultramarine Slap-happy Water Buffalo (non-peer graduate; non-peer practitioner; non-peer farmers market goer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641352) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: violent office azn 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...id#35641383) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:14 PM Author: Internet-worthy pit mood Check out Eats, Shoots, and Trendashes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641427) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:55 PM Author: Lilac vibrant trust fund (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35645264) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: Unhinged hairless electric furnace spot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641354) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:08 PM Author: soul-stirring ungodly blood rage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641366) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: Lilac vibrant trust fund (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641386) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM Author: rambunctious contagious hell deer antler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641406) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: crusty disturbing skinny woman orchestra pit Is this flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641326) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Apoplectic charismatic corn cake Square apostrophes are the worst. I mean, show a little effort. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641333) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM Author: Blathering shrine mother 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...id#35641407) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:16 PM Author: violent office azn 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...id#35641435) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:03 PM Author: Ivory Razzmatazz Point cr, huge patent prole tell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641765) |
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Date: March 21st, 2018 12:17 PM Author: violent office azn (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35652523) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: Internet-worthy pit mood (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641869) |
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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:18 AM Author: hateful abusive pisswyrm 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...id#35658723) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:01 PM Author: violent office azn Good job man. We’d be friends. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#36038907) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Orange Piazza 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...id#36038931) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: violent office azn 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...id#36038946) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:54 PM Author: Orange Piazza It flips them all so they curl away from the number. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#36050278) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Nofapping clear space 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...id#35641336) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: Ultramarine Slap-happy Water Buffalo you can typically just use a voice command ime (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641345) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: amethyst know-it-all dragon menage 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...id#35641343) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:09 PM Author: violent office azn 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...id#35641372) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: crusty disturbing skinny woman orchestra pit 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...id#35641379) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: Ultramarine Slap-happy Water Buffalo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641390) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: fishy tantric locus newt Most lawyers did just fine in HS math. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641414) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: Aqua Swashbuckling Clown Potus 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...id#35641395) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:15 PM Author: fishy tantric locus newt 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 office azn 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...id#35641456) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:59 PM Author: fishy tantric locus newt Very TTT.
But who's going to check? |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:33 PM Author: Nofapping clear space People who care about this are what make biglaw miserable, fyi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641582) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:34 PM Author: Internet-worthy pit mood "bake?" oh shit, I just proved your point. Bake me away, toys. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641586) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:36 PM Author: Nofapping clear space Damn you're fast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641601) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:02 PM Author: Internet-worthy pit mood That took several hours per my notebook of billables. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641760) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: Nofapping clear space (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641859) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:00 PM Author: amethyst know-it-all dragon menage 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...id#35641748) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:01 PM Author: Aqua Swashbuckling Clown Potus 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...id#35641758) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: Nofapping clear space (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641861) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: Nofapping clear space 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...id#35641868) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:01 PM Author: Lascivious stag film factory reset button *BEEP BEEP BEEP* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35641759) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:49 PM Author: Purple demanding meetinghouse dingle berry killself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35645224) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:51 PM Author: spectacular medicated box office alt 0151 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35645233) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:54 PM Author: frisky maniacal halford transhyphenist non bigot here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#35645255) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:56 PM Author: Bateful twinkling property famous landscape painting 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: Gay hot pocket flask This is — the credited criticism — so say I. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#36038917) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 10:43 PM Author: Orange Piazza 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...id#36039460) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 7:39 PM Author: Judgmental step-uncle's house Worrying about this is the ultimate no book of business tell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id#36050530) |