/lit/ - Literature

>>3618796
OP does, I suppose. I'm just looking for a distraction from a stressful relationship with 'work stuff'—then I became caught up in this and thought, why not?

>>3616023
A mediaeval latinist (Buoncompagno) is the first to use punctuation similar to an em dash called an uirgula plana, which was used when the sense of a sentence was complete. This symbol appears again in Roger Bacon's Opus tertium. The uirgula plana was replaced by the periodus at the end of a complete idea. The clarity that the mediaevalists sought pushed the period into common use.

The 'em rule' was used by novelist Samuel Richardson when using dashes to express sudden changes in direction of thought in spoken discourse. His book Clarissa (1748) was very influential for shaping the use of the em dash.

By 1768 (due to publishing standards, the rise of novels, and other works on grammar based on Bacon's), em dashes were being used in English print, such as The Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
>I felt a pleasurable ductility about her, which spread a calmness over all my spirits —
> — Good God! how a man might lead such a creature as this round the world with him! —

Using em dashes inside quotations appears in Charlotte Bronte's novel The Professor (1846)
>"Do you live alone—?"
But Bronte uses en dashes instead of em dashes in the following circumstance:
>[…] I should certainly devise some slight punishment – at your age – you must be two or three and twenty [.]
Though over the course of the mid 19th century the punctuation normalized to what it is today. Dickins and Austen were important in the standardization.

>>1157565
I think you got it.

>>449356
femanonnnnnnnn?

>>444258
+1

however, it's outdated. real millitary doctrines are much more relevant