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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: Useless Self-absorbed Locus 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: Talking swashbuckling becky black woman 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: Useless Self-absorbed Locus it's despicable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641410) |
Date: March 19th, 2018 9:03 PM Author: stimulating menage 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: Pearl office 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: snowy sneaky criminal (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: Lascivious translucent people who are hurt (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: Pearl office (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: Vigorous trailer park 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: Pearl office (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: Cyan preventive strike parlour (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: Useless Self-absorbed Locus 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: Pearl office (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: Useless Self-absorbed Locus 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 9:10 PM Author: glittery outnumbered mood (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: Ruby abode (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: nighttime low-t dragon masturbator 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: dashing mental disorder pit 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: lemon irradiated pisswyrm spot 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: Useless Self-absorbed Locus 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: avocado floppy garrison queen of the night 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: Useless Self-absorbed Locus (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: Cerise Cheese-eating 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: odious chrome alpha gay wizard 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: Useless Self-absorbed Locus 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: obsidian hospital 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: Useless Self-absorbed Locus 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: obsidian hospital 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: chocolate startled mother den 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: Pearl office 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: umber rehab son of senegal 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: Useless Self-absorbed Locus 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: nighttime low-t dragon masturbator 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: Pearl office (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: Talking swashbuckling becky black woman 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: Iridescent apoplectic location half-breed 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: Talking swashbuckling becky black woman Amateur!
Increase the font scale setting to increase the hyphen to 300%. |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:18 PM Author: Useless Self-absorbed Locus 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: Talking swashbuckling becky black woman Very TTT.
But who's going to check? |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:33 PM Author: chocolate startled mother den 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: Cerise Cheese-eating 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: chocolate startled mother den 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: Cerise Cheese-eating 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: chocolate startled mother den (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: umber rehab son of senegal 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: Iridescent apoplectic location half-breed 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: chocolate startled mother den (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: chocolate startled mother den 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: kink-friendly supple point 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: slate haunted graveyard institution 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: vivacious plaza 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: obsidian hospital 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: laughsome range philosopher-king Worrying about this is the ultimate no book of business tell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#36050530) |