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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: Rusted Parlour 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: mind-boggling stage preventive strike 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: Rusted Parlour it's despicable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641410) |
Date: March 19th, 2018 9:03 PM Author: swollen school cafeteria chad 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: fluffy office deer antler 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: talented mildly autistic garrison water buffalo (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: Pink irradiated gas station twinkling uncleanness (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: fluffy office deer antler (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: i gave my cousin head (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: Deep hilarious fat ankles round eye 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: fluffy office deer antler (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: Painfully honest comical marketing idea orchestra pit (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: Rusted Parlour 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: fluffy office deer antler (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: Rusted Parlour 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: Arousing lake athletic conference selfie (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: Medicated School (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: Magical national bbw (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: Arousing lake athletic conference selfie (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: charismatic circlehead (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: Bespoke hyperactive coldplay fan really tough guy 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: Curious field 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: buff mental disorder 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: Rusted Parlour 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: odious magenta lodge wrinkle 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: Rusted Parlour (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: Razzmatazz sanctuary azn (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: Slap-happy plum boltzmann 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: Rusted Parlour 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: soul-stirring drab 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: Rusted Parlour 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: soul-stirring drab 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: At-the-ready Hall 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: fluffy office deer antler 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: Fishy Point 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: Rusted Parlour 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: Bespoke hyperactive coldplay fan really tough guy 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: fluffy office deer antler (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: mind-boggling stage preventive strike 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: diverse dragon sandwich 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: mind-boggling stage preventive strike Amateur!
Increase the font scale setting to increase the hyphen to 300%. |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:18 PM Author: Rusted Parlour 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: mind-boggling stage preventive strike Very TTT.
But who's going to check? |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:33 PM Author: At-the-ready Hall 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: Razzmatazz sanctuary azn "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: At-the-ready Hall 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: Razzmatazz sanctuary azn 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: At-the-ready Hall (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: Fishy Point 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: diverse dragon sandwich 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: At-the-ready Hall (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: At-the-ready Hall 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 19th, 2018 10:01 PM Author: pontificating deranged forum *BEEP BEEP BEEP* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35641759) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:49 PM Author: razzle garnet new version mood killself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35645224) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:51 PM Author: Insanely creepy awkward stag film alt 0151 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#35645233) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:54 PM Author: dull boyish brethren 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: Gold Gaped Ticket Booth Macaca 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: hairraiser tank 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: soul-stirring drab 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: know-it-all cyan son of senegal immigrant Worrying about this is the ultimate no book of business tell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2)#36050530) |