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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: stirring lodge 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: Razzle-dazzle Hateful Church Building 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: stirring lodge it's despicable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641410) |
Date: March 19th, 2018 9:03 PM Author: contagious center 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: rough-skinned casino 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 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: garnet racy trailer park ceo 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 9:06 PM Author: stirring lodge 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: rough-skinned casino (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: stirring lodge 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 20th, 2018 12:55 PM Author: Swashbuckling Therapy (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: shimmering background story (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: motley death wish (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: Swashbuckling Therapy (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: Razzle Sneaky Criminal (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: disturbing charismatic temple hominid 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: hairraiser theater gaping 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: Arrogant love of her life box office 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: stirring lodge 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: frisky giraffe hospital 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: stirring lodge (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: Bateful Know-it-all Shrine Ratface (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: Drunken wonderful indirect expression scourge upon the earth 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: stirring lodge 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: Fragrant Vengeful Incel Dingle Berry 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: stirring lodge 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: Fragrant Vengeful Incel Dingle Berry 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: honey-headed fluffy resort 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: rough-skinned casino 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: Salmon Faggotry 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: stirring lodge 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: disturbing charismatic temple hominid 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: rough-skinned casino (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: Razzle-dazzle Hateful Church Building 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: bipolar pistol 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: Razzle-dazzle Hateful Church Building Amateur!
Increase the font scale setting to increase the hyphen to 300%. |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:18 PM Author: stirring lodge 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: Razzle-dazzle Hateful Church Building Very TTT.
But who's going to check? |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:33 PM Author: honey-headed fluffy resort 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: Bateful Know-it-all Shrine Ratface "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: honey-headed fluffy resort 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: Bateful Know-it-all Shrine Ratface 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 10:00 PM Author: Salmon Faggotry 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: bipolar pistol 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: honey-headed fluffy resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641861) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:56 PM Author: coiffed cordovan fortuitous meteor pit 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: lascivious space liquid oxygen 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: Fragrant Vengeful Incel Dingle Berry 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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