MBlume comments on Open Thread: April 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MBlume 16 April 2009 05:57:55AM 0 points [-]

Silly self-obsessed stylistic question here:

Would anyone be willing to tell me whether I'm badly overusing italics and em-dashes in my writing?

Comment author: Jack 16 April 2009 06:04:09AM 3 points [-]

I think you're fine-- but then I adore em-dashes.

Comment author: MBlume 16 April 2009 06:22:09AM *  0 points [-]

Aren't they wonderful? I'm an extremely aural person, so I tend to put a lot of effort into reproducing textually the way my sentences sound in my head. I just found myself hitting the asterisk key rather a lot and started wondering if it might be wearing on people -- if it felt like I was forcing their reading of the text.

Comment author: arundelo 16 April 2009 06:23:16AM 0 points [-]

I don't think so.

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