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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: Spruce Indirect Expression Coldplay Fan 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/en-en/#35641306) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: excitant foreskin 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/en-en/#35641398) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: Spruce Indirect Expression Coldplay Fan it's despicable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641410) |
Date: March 19th, 2018 9:03 PM Author: Obsidian Cerebral Field Halford 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/en-en/#35641317) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: concupiscible stage 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/en-en/#35641319) |
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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:22 AM Author: Ruddy Home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35658763) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:55 PM Author: concupiscible stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#36050284) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: multi-colored up-to-no-good friendly grandma den Trendash for life. What the fuck? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641323) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: concupiscible stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641327) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: vivacious meetinghouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641346) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: Spruce Indirect Expression Coldplay Fan 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/en-en/#35641347) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: concupiscible stage (non-peer graduate; non-peer practitioner; non-peer farmers market goer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641352) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: Spruce Indirect Expression Coldplay Fan 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/en-en/#35641383) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM Author: swashbuckling pea-brained legal warrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641406) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Autistic Learning Disabled Plaza National Security Agency Is this flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641326) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: sable site main people Square apostrophes are the worst. I mean, show a little effort. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641333) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM Author: Titillating school nowag 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/en-en/#35641407) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:16 PM Author: Spruce Indirect Expression Coldplay Fan 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/en-en/#35641435) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:03 PM Author: fighting house cr, huge patent prole tell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641765) |
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Date: March 21st, 2018 12:17 PM Author: Spruce Indirect Expression Coldplay Fan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35652523) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: Hideous Forum (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641869) |
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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:18 AM Author: silver passionate chapel fortuitous meteor 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/en-en/#35658723) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:01 PM Author: Spruce Indirect Expression Coldplay Fan Good job man. We’d be friends. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#36038907) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: razzle-dazzle stain partner 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/en-en/#36038931) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: Spruce Indirect Expression Coldplay Fan 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/en-en/#36038946) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:54 PM Author: razzle-dazzle stain partner It flips them all so they curl away from the number. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#36050278) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: lavender prole resort 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/en-en/#35641336) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: concupiscible stage you can typically just use a voice command ime (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641345) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: Embarrassed To The Bone Newt Party Of The First Part 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/en-en/#35641343) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:09 PM Author: Spruce Indirect Expression Coldplay Fan 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/en-en/#35641372) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: Autistic Learning Disabled Plaza National Security Agency 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/en-en/#35641379) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: concupiscible stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641390) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: excitant foreskin Most lawyers did just fine in HS math. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2/en-en/#35641414) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:15 PM Author: excitant foreskin Amateur!
Increase the font scale setting to increase the hyphen to 300%. |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:18 PM Author: Spruce Indirect Expression Coldplay Fan 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/en-en/#35641456) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:59 PM Author: excitant foreskin Very TTT.
But who's going to check? |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:56 PM Author: gold hospital 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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