/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12405559]

I've noticed a lot of modern writers have a propensity to overuse em dashes. Every article, piece of fiction, blog etc. has them now, in seemingly every paragraph.
Where does this come from? And am I a retarded for thinking of it as a basedboy thing to do?

[Anonymous No.12405576]

>>12405559
>am I a retarded for thinking of it as a basedboy thing to do?
Absolutely.

[Anonymous No.12405595]

It's just a new stylistic usage convention, likely a phenomenon because long clausal connecting sentences died to prosaic minimalism and the short statement in most popular English writing post 1960ish but authors still need to be able to connect complex thoughts -- like this one, with interruptions that kind of match spoken English but are more formally structured without getting exhausting -- and em dashes are super fucking flexible

[Anonymous No.12405611]

What's your alternative - spaced en dashes?

[Anonymous No.12405614]

>>12405559
yes, yes you are retarded

[Anonymous No.12405616]

>>12405559

pleb
>using only periods and commas

normie
>using periods commas emdashes colons and semicolons

patrician
>using no punctuation markings at all

[Anonymous No.12405620]

>>12405576
>>12405614
what these guys said

[Anonymous No.12405624]

>>12405611
Commas and semicolons. They have their place, but I hate seeing them shit up the page. They're too broad, and take up too much vertical space.

[Anonymous No.12405625]

>>12405616
Greentexting is punctuation.

[Anonymous No.12405702]

To Punctuate — remain —
Across the — Silence — speak —
Between the — River — stones
Dehusk — a pomace — run —

[Anonymous No.12405715]

Why don't more people use parantheses to convey additional thoughts? Is it autistic?

I'm a fan of the semi-colon myself.

[Anonymous No.12405732]

using any interpunction at all already is soi as fuck
i am ashamed of you
also if you don't triple space you're sentences your a numale bitch who probably believes manspreading is real

[Anonymous No.12405741]

>>12405616
>pleb
>>using only periods and commas
Kill yourself. Semi-colons are pretentious periods.

[Anonymous No.12405805]

this is how yeats wouldve written if he were a chad
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turning and turning in the widening gyrethe falcon cannot hear the falconer;things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywherethe ceremony of innocence is drowned;the best lack all conviction, while the worstare full of passionate intensity.
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the falcon cannot hear the falconer;the centre cannot hold;mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywherethe ceremony of innocence is drowned;the best lack all conviction, while the worstare full of passionate intensity.
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things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywherethe ceremony of innocence is drowned;the best lack all conviction, while the worstare full of passionate intensity.
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mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywherethe ceremony of innocence is drowned;the best lack all conviction, while the worstare full of passionate intensity.
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the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywherethe ceremony of innocence is drowned;the best lack all conviction, while the worstare full of passionate intensity.
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the ceremony of innocence is drowned;the best lack all conviction, while the worstare full of passionate intensity.
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the best lack all conviction, while the worstare full of passionate intensity.
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are full of passionate intensity.turning and turning in the widening gyrethe falcon cannot hear the falconer;things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywherethe ceremony of innocence is drowned;the best lack all conviction, while the worstare full of passionate intensity.

[Anonymous No.12406401]

When used correctly, it really shows ability in the best writers. Read some Nabokov and you'll know what I mean.

[Anonymous No.12406419]

LOWERCASE MORE LIKE BASEDERCASE YOU BUNCH OF PATHETIC KEKS ARE WEAK AS FUCK LITERALLY WHAT ARE YOU DOING RIGHT NOW

[Anonymous No.12406819]

>>12406419
>FUCK
>not FVCK
παιδεραστής

[Anonymous No.12407250]

>>12405616

true only cucks cucked by chuck use punctuation