Talk:'42-year detour' ends: Garrison Keillor homeward bound

Latest comment: 8 years ago by Pi zero in topic EMDASH

Review of revision 4227853 [Not ready]

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@Pi zero: that's what I get for assuming that everyone on the planet has heard of Keillor, eh? 🖖ATS / Talk 01:15, 28 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

Review of revision 4229328 [Passed]

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@Pi zero: heh, nice! Anyway, thanks again for your work. 🖖ATS / Talk 22:53, 2 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

EMDASH

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@Pi zero: I've always profoundly disapproved of its profound disapproval. But, oh well ... 😜 🖖ATS / Talk 23:08, 2 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, we're not gonna see eye-to-eye on that one, I think. Believe it or not, one of the little things I especially loved about the web when it came along was that we could finally put whitespace around our em dashes. --Pi zero (talk) 23:23, 2 July 2016 (UTC)Reply
AP's been doing it for decades—one of a handful of problems I've had with that style for decades (😜). My pet peeve: the insistence on using commas within quote marks to separate titles. It's a holdover from the days when italic typeset was rare. 🖖ATS / Talk 23:34, 2 July 2016 (UTC)Reply
I've always figured omitting whitespace around em dashes for a holdover from the expense of paper real estate. --Pi zero (talk) 23:44, 2 July 2016 (UTC)Reply
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