doing the marge simpson impression so hard that I throw up
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well see it can do the work of the colon, the semicolon, or the parenthesis with more speed and less formality than any of these, plus you can use it to capture the stream-of-consciousness effect of a comma splice with much less loss of clarity. sort of an all-purpose punctuation for the casual yet elaborate written construct.
I believe in the em-dash because the em-dash believes in me
— is faster than , : or ;.
Vertical ones make you stop, the horizontal ones make you change track on the go.
Hope that helps.
it just looks so nice. and it makes sentences so good and versatile and varied. i will never stop living the em-dash life













