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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: Fishy goyim 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: pungent black sweet tailpipe theater stage 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: Fishy goyim it's despicable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35641410) |
Date: March 19th, 2018 9:03 PM Author: 180 idiot potus 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 9:06 PM Author: Fishy goyim 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 9:10 PM Author: Fishy goyim 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 9:12 PM Author: sapphire gunner brunch 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: Fishy goyim 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: Fishy goyim (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Elisa#35652523) |
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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:18 AM Author: bipolar crackhouse toaster 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: Fishy goyim 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: Razzmatazz topaz degenerate 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: Fishy goyim 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: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: diverse anal karate 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: Drunken Gas Station 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: Fishy goyim 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 9:15 PM Author: pungent black sweet tailpipe theater stage Amateur!
Increase the font scale setting to increase the hyphen to 300%. |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:18 PM Author: Fishy goyim 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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But who's going to check? |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:56 PM Author: Salmon outnumbered site internal respiration 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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