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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: Vivacious misanthropic principal's office 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=2Elisa#35641306) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: sooty orchestra pit Two hyphens for em dashes isn't that bad. It's just ugly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641398) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: Vivacious misanthropic principal's office it's despicable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641410) |
Date: March 19th, 2018 9:03 PM Author: Chocolate filthpig sanctuary 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=2Elisa#35641317) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: sapphire lascivious pit gaming laptop 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=2Elisa#35641319) |
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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:22 AM Author: exciting chapel dopamine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35658763) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:55 PM Author: sapphire lascivious pit gaming laptop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#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=2Elisa#49155425) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: honey-headed half-breed candlestick maker Trendash for life. What the fuck? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641323) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: sapphire lascivious pit gaming laptop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641327) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: deranged fat ankles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641346) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: Vivacious misanthropic principal's office 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=2Elisa#35641347) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: sapphire lascivious pit gaming laptop (non-peer graduate; non-peer practitioner; non-peer farmers market goer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641352) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: Vivacious misanthropic principal's office 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=2Elisa#35641383) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:14 PM Author: arrogant spot Check out Eats, Shoots, and Trendashes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641427) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: shaky dashing theater stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641386) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Spectacular cyan immigrant Is this flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641326) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Metal Gay Wizard Square apostrophes are the worst. I mean, show a little effort. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641333) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM Author: Sticky hall 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=2Elisa#35641407) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:16 PM Author: Vivacious misanthropic principal's office 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=2Elisa#35641435) |
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Date: March 21st, 2018 12:17 PM Author: Vivacious misanthropic principal's office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35652523) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: arrogant spot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641869) |
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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:18 AM Author: aromatic cerise station 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=2Elisa#35658723) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:01 PM Author: Vivacious misanthropic principal's office Good job man. We’d be friends. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#36038907) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Unholy french friendly grandma 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=2Elisa#36038931) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: Vivacious misanthropic principal's office 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=2Elisa#36038946) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:54 PM Author: Unholy french friendly grandma It flips them all so they curl away from the number. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#36050278) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: wonderful demanding old irish cottage 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=2Elisa#35641336) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: sapphire lascivious pit gaming laptop you can typically just use a voice command ime (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641345) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: grizzly market 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=2Elisa#35641343) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:09 PM Author: Vivacious misanthropic principal's office 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=2Elisa#35641372) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: Spectacular cyan immigrant You could have avoided all this just by doing better in HS calculus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641379) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: sapphire lascivious pit gaming laptop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641390) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: sooty orchestra pit Most lawyers did just fine in HS math. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641414) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: Indigo National Headpube 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=2Elisa#35641395) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:15 PM Author: sooty orchestra pit Amateur!
Increase the font scale setting to increase the hyphen to 300%. |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:18 PM Author: Vivacious misanthropic principal's office 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=2Elisa#35641456) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:59 PM Author: sooty orchestra pit Very TTT.
But who's going to check? |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:33 PM Author: wonderful demanding old irish cottage People who care about this are what make biglaw miserable, fyi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641582) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:34 PM Author: arrogant spot "bake?" oh shit, I just proved your point. Bake me away, toys. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641586) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:36 PM Author: wonderful demanding old irish cottage Damn you're fast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641601) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:02 PM Author: arrogant spot That took several hours per my notebook of billables. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641760) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: wonderful demanding old irish cottage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641859) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:00 PM Author: grizzly market 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=2Elisa#35641748) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:01 PM Author: Indigo National Headpube 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=2Elisa#35641758) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: wonderful demanding old irish cottage 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=2Elisa#35641868) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:56 PM Author: ungodly house-broken public bath 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: beady-eyed infuriating police squad This is — the credited criticism — so say I. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#36038917) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 10:43 PM Author: Unholy french friendly grandma 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=2Elisa#36039460) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 7:39 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle theatre Worrying about this is the ultimate no book of business tell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#36050530) |