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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: 180 university 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...id.#35641306) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: Thirsty cocky parlour skinny woman 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...id.#35641398) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: 180 university it's despicable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641410) |
Date: March 19th, 2018 9:03 PM Author: Exciting vermilion sanctuary telephone 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...id.#35641317) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: Spectacular station 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...id.#35641319) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:55 PM Author: Spectacular station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#36050284) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: house-broken transparent stage Trendash for life. What the fuck? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641323) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Spectacular station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641327) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: contagious juggernaut toilet seat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641346) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: 180 university 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...id.#35641347) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: Spectacular station (non-peer graduate; non-peer practitioner; non-peer farmers market goer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641352) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: 180 university 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...id.#35641383) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:55 PM Author: outnumbered hominid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35645264) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: outnumbered hominid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641386) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Tan fluffy trump supporter sex offender Is this flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641326) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: know-it-all alpha piazza Square apostrophes are the worst. I mean, show a little effort. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641333) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM Author: Hairraiser lay twinkling uncleanness 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...id.#35641407) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:16 PM Author: 180 university 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...id.#35641435) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:03 PM Author: dun heady hunting ground cr, huge patent prole tell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641765) |
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Date: March 21st, 2018 12:17 PM Author: 180 university (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35652523) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: Turquoise Sickened Corner Preventive Strike (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641869) |
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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:18 AM Author: aromatic step-uncle's house 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...id.#35658723) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:01 PM Author: 180 university Good job man. We’d be friends. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#36038907) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Wine hairless home 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...id.#36038931) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: 180 university 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...id.#36038946) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:54 PM Author: Wine hairless home It flips them all so they curl away from the number. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#36050278) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: amber bearded internal respiration garrison 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...id.#35641336) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: Spectacular station you can typically just use a voice command ime (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641345) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: exhilarant location 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...id.#35641343) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:09 PM Author: 180 university 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...id.#35641372) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: Tan fluffy trump supporter sex offender 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...id.#35641379) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: Spectacular station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641390) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: Thirsty cocky parlour skinny woman Most lawyers did just fine in HS math. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641414) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: Citrine property brethren 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=2...id.#35641395) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:15 PM Author: Thirsty cocky parlour skinny woman Amateur!
Increase the font scale setting to increase the hyphen to 300%. |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:18 PM Author: 180 university 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...id.#35641456) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:59 PM Author: Thirsty cocky parlour skinny woman Very TTT.
But who's going to check? |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:33 PM Author: amber bearded internal respiration garrison People who care about this are what make biglaw miserable, fyi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641582) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:34 PM Author: Turquoise Sickened Corner Preventive Strike "bake?" oh shit, I just proved your point. Bake me away, toys. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641586) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:36 PM Author: amber bearded internal respiration garrison Damn you're fast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641601) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:02 PM Author: Turquoise Sickened Corner Preventive Strike That took several hours per my notebook of billables. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641760) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: amber bearded internal respiration garrison (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641859) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:00 PM Author: exhilarant location 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=2...id.#35641748) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:01 PM Author: Citrine property brethren 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=2...id.#35641758) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: amber bearded internal respiration garrison (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#35641861) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: amber bearded internal respiration garrison 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=2...id.#35641868) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:56 PM Author: Red fat ankles bawdyhouse 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: Flesh aphrodisiac theater This is — the credited criticism — so say I. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#36038917) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 10:43 PM Author: Wine hairless home 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=2...id.#36039460) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 7:39 PM Author: excitant library Worrying about this is the ultimate no book of business tell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2...id.#36050530) |