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Dashes are primarily used in informal writing, like letters or notes; they can substitute almost any punctuation, including commas, semicolons, colons, quotes, parenthesis, or stops. They usually designate a pause a little longer than a full stop: that's what the em-dash is often called //pause// and en-dash //half-a-pause//. Most style guides advice to avoid dashes in formal text, as it makes it look immature and not thought-through.
Dashes are primarily used in informal writing, like letters or notes; they can substitute almost any punctuation, including commas, semicolons, colons, quotes, parenthesis, or stops. They usually designate a pause a little longer than a full stop: that's why the em-dash is often called //pause// and en-dash //half-a-pause//. Most style guides advice to avoid dashes in formal text, as it makes it look immature and not thought-through.
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The hyphens, on the other hand, are a part of the word -- they are used when a word consists of two parts connected too loosely to write them together, but too close to write them separately. They are also used for "hyphenating" a word: breaking it at the right margin when there is
not enough space to fit it whole.
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16 19-Oct-2007 00:49 3.604 kB 207.171.180.101 to previous | to last Fixed grammar
15 19-Oct-2007 00:47 3.604 kB 207.171.180.101 to previous | to last Fixed spelling and grammar
14 26-Sep-2007 09:47 3.603 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last restore
13 26-Sep-2007 02:04 3.625 kB 216.23.162.164 to previous | to last
12 07-Mar-2007 16:09 3.603 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last more detailed info into bullet list
11 07-Mar-2007 15:54 3.586 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last bullet list of external links
10 07-Mar-2007 15:48 3.571 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last removed puses, added continuations
9 07-Mar-2007 15:39 3.521 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last reworked the leading paragraph, added paragraph about hyphens
8 07-Mar-2007 15:37 3.201 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last reworked the leading paragraph
7 06-Mar-2007 17:10 3.62 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last dash in Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style
6 06-Mar-2007 16:40 3.517 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last added hyphen-minus link to wikipedia
5 06-Mar-2007 16:07 3.44 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last double hyphen
4 06-Mar-2007 16:06 3.413 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last added double hyphen
3 06-Mar-2007 15:48 3.325 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last removed a link that requires logging in
2 06-Mar-2007 15:43 3.445 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last more on the subject
1 06-Mar-2007 12:23 0.812 kB ChuckSmith to last confusion of hyphens and dashes
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