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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: spectacular point fanboi 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=2Reputation#35641306) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: insecure bossy twinkling uncleanness Two hyphens for em dashes isn't that bad. It's just ugly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641398) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: spectacular point fanboi it's despicable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641410) |
Date: March 19th, 2018 9:03 PM Author: Talented love of her life 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=2Reputation#35641317) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: Charismatic pea-brained wagecucks 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=2Reputation#35641319) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:53 PM Author: galvanic legal warrant menage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35645246) |
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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:22 AM Author: iridescent school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35658763) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:55 PM Author: Charismatic pea-brained wagecucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#36050284) |
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Date: August 4th, 2025 1:07 PM Author: i gave my cousin head (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#49155425) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: Ocher Locale Filthpig Trendash for life. What the fuck? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641323) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Charismatic pea-brained wagecucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641327) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: Greedy floppy abode black woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641346) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: spectacular point fanboi 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=2Reputation#35641347) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: Charismatic pea-brained wagecucks (non-peer graduate; non-peer practitioner; non-peer farmers market goer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641352) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: spectacular point fanboi 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=2Reputation#35641383) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:14 PM Author: chrome comical double fault church building Check out Eats, Shoots, and Trendashes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641427) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:55 PM Author: Slate queen of the night (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35645264) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: exhilarant azn (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641354) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:08 PM Author: Lake Juggernaut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641366) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: Slate queen of the night (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641386) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM Author: dashing step-uncle's house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641406) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: excitant gaping goyim Is this flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641326) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: magenta anal crackhouse Square apostrophes are the worst. I mean, show a little effort. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641333) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM Author: Grizzly slippery sneaky criminal 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=2Reputation#35641407) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:16 PM Author: spectacular point fanboi 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=2Reputation#35641435) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:03 PM Author: Maniacal range cr, huge patent prole tell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641765) |
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Date: March 21st, 2018 12:17 PM Author: spectacular point fanboi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35652523) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: chrome comical double fault church building (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641869) |
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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:18 AM Author: Thriller sinister field 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=2Reputation#35658723) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:01 PM Author: spectacular point fanboi Good job man. We’d be friends. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#36038907) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Cruel-hearted sandwich piazza 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=2Reputation#36038931) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: spectacular point fanboi 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=2Reputation#36038946) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:54 PM Author: Cruel-hearted sandwich piazza It flips them all so they curl away from the number. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#36050278) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: Vivacious Submissive Spot Yarmulke 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=2Reputation#35641336) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: Charismatic pea-brained wagecucks you can typically just use a voice command ime (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641345) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM Author: racy walnut ceo really tough guy 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=2Reputation#35641343) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:09 PM Author: spectacular point fanboi 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=2Reputation#35641372) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM Author: excitant gaping goyim You could have avoided all this just by doing better in HS calculus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641379) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: Charismatic pea-brained wagecucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641390) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: insecure bossy twinkling uncleanness Most lawyers did just fine in HS math. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641414) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: Fantasy-prone psychic corn cake 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=2Reputation#35641395) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:15 PM Author: insecure bossy twinkling uncleanness Amateur!
Increase the font scale setting to increase the hyphen to 300%. |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:18 PM Author: spectacular point fanboi 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=2Reputation#35641456) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:59 PM Author: insecure bossy twinkling uncleanness Very TTT.
But who's going to check? |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:33 PM Author: Vivacious Submissive Spot Yarmulke People who care about this are what make biglaw miserable, fyi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641582) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:34 PM Author: chrome comical double fault church building "bake?" oh shit, I just proved your point. Bake me away, toys. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641586) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:36 PM Author: Vivacious Submissive Spot Yarmulke Damn you're fast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641601) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:02 PM Author: chrome comical double fault church building That took several hours per my notebook of billables. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641760) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: Vivacious Submissive Spot Yarmulke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641859) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:00 PM Author: racy walnut ceo really tough guy 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=2Reputation#35641748) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:01 PM Author: Fantasy-prone psychic corn cake 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=2Reputation#35641758) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: Vivacious Submissive Spot Yarmulke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#35641861) |
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: Vivacious Submissive Spot Yarmulke 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=2Reputation#35641868) |
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:56 PM Author: Aromatic Principal's Office Shitlib 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: Hairraiser nursing home This is — the credited criticism — so say I. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#36038917) |
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Date: May 12th, 2018 10:43 PM Author: Cruel-hearted sandwich piazza 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=2Reputation#36039460) |
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Date: May 14th, 2018 7:39 PM Author: canary public bath Worrying about this is the ultimate no book of business tell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2Reputation#36050530) |