(Did they seriously just use ‘2’ in a heading? And then in the following sentences? Don’t worry, there will be another article on that next!) The newly released online version of the Australian Government’s Style Manual -still in its beta stage-has stripped the em dash of its most significant purposes, leaving it with only these: ‘use 2 em dashes for some quoted speech and deliberate omissions in text’. For there are evil forces afoot conspiring to destroy our beloved em dash … Not if we stay silent and simply allow this great injustice to transpire. to introduce an explanatory aside or signify an abrupt change in the direction of the sentence.īut no more. ![]()
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