alt Hacker NewsEm dashes—if properly used—are really useful.
They help convey that I am so smart—and I think so fast—that I have to constantly interrupt myself.
But—and I think this is important—it’s really easy to overuse them.
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jayknight • today at 2:44 PM
Ah, so my constant interrupting myself is a sign of intelligence? That's great news.
But seriously, trying to express the spider web of thoughts in my head as a linear string of words is really difficult for me and that doesn't make me feel very smart.
At some point in middle/high school I realized that teachers were very impressed by em dashes and semicolons; I started using both constantly.