/lit/ - Literature

>>12550074
Because, retard, each of those symbols has a different kind of feeling or connotation for whatever that pause is.

An em dash often implies a more instant stop/start or that something between them - like this - demands more of the reader's attention.

Something like ellipsis has more of a longer drawl, or a longer suggested pause.

Semi-colons and colons aren't even exclusively pause related, and each changes the meaning and direction of a sentence. And so on.